The progress towards eradication of poliovirus globally is one of the greatest success stories of the global health community. When the Global Polio Eradication Initiative started in 1988, polio paralysed more than 1000 children worldwide every day. Since then the global incidence of wild poliovirus cases has decreased by 99.9%, …
New Delhi: The hero of India’s polio fight — the bivalent oral vaccine (BOPV)— is now being tested against the injectible one (IPV) to see which one boosts mucosal immunity (also known as gut immunity) the most and provides immunity to a child for the longest time. A first-of-its-kind study …
Over 2.2 million children would be administered anti-polio vaccine drops and a dose of Vitamin-A in 18 town of Karachi, during a three-day drive against polio scheduled from October 24 to 26, said Sindh Minister for Human Right, Ms. Nadia Gabol on Sunday. In a message on commencement of the …
China vaccinated 4.5 million children and young adults over the last five weeks in the western region of Xinjiang in a fight against polio after the disease paralysed 17 people and killed one of them, the World Health Organisation said. Polio has broken out in China for the first time …
According to a World Health Organisation Surveillance Officer Even though India is yet to be declared polio-free nation by the World Health Organisation, the year 2011 has something to cheer about for the country in polio eradication drive. The longest polio-free period India has ever had was achieved this year …
Five more polio cases have been detected in Balochistan and number of polio cases reported in Balochistan in current year has risen to 49. When contacted, Unicef Communication Officer Dr Jawahir Habib told newsmen here on Wednesday that five more cases had been detected in three districts of Balochistan including …
New Delhi: India has not reported a single polio case in over 200 days. The country’s only polio case reported this year was on January 13 from West Bengal. India has been alert to any sort of import of the virus from neighbouring countries too. The Global Polio Eradication Initiative …
This study is based on EPI (Expanded Program on Immunization) immunization surveys and surveillance of polio, its challenges in immunization and the way forward to overcome these challenges.
At least 10 people in northwestern China have contracted a highly infectious strain of polio, in the first outbreak of the disease in the country for 12 years, a United Nations group said yesterday. Six children and four adults in the Xinjiang region have been diagnosed with the wild poliovirus …
WHO Sets Alarm Bells Ringing After Deadly Variant Reaches China, Sparks Outbreak Geneva: Pakistan is dubbed as the “epicentre” of global terrorism. Now, the terror-affected country is the hotbed of a deadly strain of polio which threatens to spread globally if not checked. A deadly strain of polio has spread …
Alarm Raised After 4 Infants In China Infected With The Virus From Pakistan New Delhi: It’s cross-border terror of a different kind. India is on high alert against the deadly polio virus coming into the country from Pakistan and the health ministry has asked the Punjab government to mandatorily vaccinate …
JAIPUR: India is close to eradicating polio, a dreaded disease of the 20th century. "Only one polio case was found in 2011, which means it will soon be eradicated," Dr Samlee Plianbangchang, regional director, WHO South East Asia Region (SEAR) told TOI. This year, only one child -- a one-and-a-half-year …
Around 100 polio victims were operated upon at a medical camp, which kicked off at Marwari Bhavan on Harmu Road in Ranchi on Friday. State tourism and social welfare minister Vimla Pradhan inaugurated the free two-day camp, organised by Sri Krishna Pranami Janakalyan Trust, which has been playing a pivotal …
President Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Sadako Ogata and Co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Bill Gates recently announced a strategic partnership to ensure continued progress in the fight against polio. As a first step of the formal partnership, Ogata and Gates announced an innovative financing agreement to …
Britain said on August 17 that hundreds of thousands of children could starve to death in Somalia if the international community did not ramp up its response to the famine there, and pledged a further $48 million to aid children and livestock owners. The latest pledge brings Britain's total aid …
The World Health Organization (WHO) has removed three combination vaccines of Panacea Biotech from its pre-qualification list. It took the step after it found deficiencies in the quality management system followed in Panacea’s vaccine manufacturing facility in Punjab. Shipments of these vaccines – combinations of diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, Hepatitis B …
Oral vaccines have played huge part in the global battle to wipe out polio. When the WHO endorsed the goal of eradicating polio in 1988, some 350,000 children in 125 countries were being paralysed by the virus that caused the disease. That number has dropped precipitously and there were only …
In what might be the greatest medical discovery since penicillin, scientists have developed a broad-spectrum drug which they claim can cure everything — from the common cold to HIV to almost any other virus one can think of. A team of researchers at the the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in …
The UN Children`s Fund, Unicef, warned on Tuesday that Pakistan stands in the way of global eradication of polio and could potentially be the last reservoir worldwide of the crippling disease. The agency says 63 cases have been detected so far this year compared to 36 during the same period …
High level ministerial meeting 4 August, 2011 - The year 2012 was declared as the year of intensification for routine immunisation in the South East Asia region by the world health organisation, following a high level ministerial meeting in New Delhi on August 2. Health ministers from Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sri …
Vaccines against deadly diseases like polio, tuberculosis and hepatitis B have to be stored, transported and administered with abundant caution or else the results can be disastrous, as was demonstrated to a group of journalists this past week during a field trip to villages around Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh. The …
