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%, …
Persisting with its thrust against polio, which has ensured that not a single case of the disease was discovered in the State during the last 27 months, the Madhya Pradesh government has launched preparations for the next phase of the National Pulse Polio Vaccination Campaign that will be held on …
Ranchi, Dec. 7: The state health department will be organising a pulse polio day in Pakur district on December 19 and has planned a series of awareness programmes in collaboration with Unicef to make it a success. Significantly, the pulse polio programme failed to achieve its zero-polio target only in …
The newly introduced double strain polio vaccine, also known as bivalent vaccine, in India is more effective and could play a key role in polio eradication, according to a study published in renowned medical journal Lancet. According to the study, the new vaccine has helped reduce the number of polio …
At least 57 cases of polio have been confirmed in the country, a meeting to review efforts for eradication of the disease was told here on Thursday. Organised by the Capital Development Authority
In a discovery that sheds new light on the history of AIDS, scientists have found evidence that the ancestor to the virus that causes the disease has been in monkeys and apes for at least 32,000 years
Anuradha Mascarenhas India is well on its way to eradicate the polio virus, according to health officials who show the sharp dip in the number of cases this year as against last year
A second case of polio in the last seven months at Malegaon has forced the health administration to look at ways to fight and eradicate the disease.In spite of regular immunisation drives conducted throughout the year, Sheikh Sultan Sheikh Akil was diagnosed with polio on Thursday and admitted to the …
Vadodara: City mayor and BJP MP Balkrishna Shukla along with Indian Medical Association (IMA), Vadodara chapter, laid the stone for launching an awareness drive on post-polio syndrome (PPS) on Sunday. Looking at the growing risk of PPS and absence of intervention, Shukla also plans to move a private Bill in …
MUMBAI: It was Pulse Polio Sunday with a difference for about 60% of the children under five years of age who stepped out for the two-drop vaccine. Instead of the usual vaccine, for the first time in Mumbai, bivalent oral polio vaccine (BOPV) was used. This new vaccine, which has …
Calcutta, July 18: Just as India was making progress in checking polio, Bengal threatens to spoil the effort because of what state officials themselves admit to be
Mumbai: The polio round scheduled to be held on July 18 in Mumbai is likely to have the Bivalent vaccine for the first time. This is despite the fact that there has not been a single polio case in the city since 2008. But the authorities fear that with the …
The largest recorded outbreak of a circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus (cVDPV), detected in Nigeria, provides a unique opportunity to analyze the pathogenicity of the virus, the clinical severity of the disease, and the effectiveness of control measures for cVDPVs as compared with wild-type poliovirus (WPV).
Mumbai A state-run corporation has got World Health Organisation (WHO) recognition for its bivalent polio vaccine. The Parel-based Haffkine Biopharmaceuticals Corporation Limited (HBPCL) supplied 10 million doses last week as its first consignment to the Centre and UNICEF for distribution under the National Polio Survelliance Programme. HBPCL was formed by …
In an encouraging sign in the fight against polio, the endemic states of UP and Bihar have not reported any poliovirus type-1 cases concurrently for more than six months. However, India has been again blamed for exporting the virus to
Bill Gates Visits Flood Plains Of Kosi For A First-Hand Look Khagaria: On the sandy banks of Kosi river in north Bihar, a quiet crowd of several hundred people is waiting in the sizzling morning sun. A speck appears in the pale blue summer sky, rapidly growing in size
Shoumojit Banerjee PATNA: In a move to bolster Bihar's public health standards, the State government on Wednesday signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, who visited Bihar on Wednesday, signed the agreement in the presence of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar …
