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%, …
It is not easy to trust a doctor who comes calling, studies the patient’s sickness, and leaves without a prescription even. More so when the patient is a child in a poor family and has polio. Yet this is routine in parts of the country where polio is endemic. Each …
Two-year-old Khushi Kumari loves racing with her siblings and at the end of each run she gives out a hearty laugh. The only time she breaks into fits of inconsolable crying is when approached by a stranger. “She fears she would get injections again,” said her mother Dinapati Yadav of …
The first polio case of the country, in the year 2010, has been confirmed by the laboratory and is identified as Type One case from Bajour Agency in Fata. Sources associated with Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) giving details of the case, on Thursday, said first victim of the year …
Chief Minister PK Dhumal formally launched the first phase of the pulse polio immunisation campaign-2010 by administering drops of medicine to infants and by flagging off of mobile pulse polio van from Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhayay Hospital, here today. He said 7.17 lakh children, up to five years of age, …
A total of 64 lakh children across the state received pulse polio drops on Sunday but the forceful advertising for the state's mass vaccination programme has allegedly resulted in the death of a 78-day-old baby near Chennai, and a 2-year-old toddler in Pudokottai district. However, officials clarified that the children …
R Krishna Das / Raipur January 11, 2010, 0:48 IST When it comes to administering two drops of polio vaccine to a child, even Naxalites prefer to put their guns down in Chhattisgarh. If state health officials are to be believed, the Naxals are not a stumbling block to administer …
Pune: Union health minister Gulam Nabi Azad today said that the government would now focus on 'bivalent' polio vaccination starting with Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. Launching Pune district's polio eradication drive, Azad said the fresh anti-polio vaccination drive would give protection against P1 and P3 strains of the virus as …
Meghalaya Chief Secretary WMS Pariat on Saturday claimed that no polio cases was detected in the State during the last 12 years. Pariat who administered polio drops to the children in Ganesh Das Hospital in Shillong to mark the inauguration of the Pulse Polio Immunization programme in the State of …
In a move that may help India combat both P1 and P3 polio viruses, the Union Health Ministry is going to introduce a new bivalent vaccine this month. The first round of the bivalent vaccine will be administered to children in Bihar on January 10. The decision was taken after …
Pune Pune has not recorded a single case of polio since 1997, claim Pune Municipal Corporation(PMC) health officials as they undertake preparations for this year's first round of pulse polio immunisation to be held on January 10. Maharashtra has not recorded a single case since November 2008. A total of …
LUCKNOW: Members of the Indian cricket team RP Singh, Suresh Raina, Mohd Kaif and Akash Chopra played a different innings on Monday. The match was entero virus which causes polio in children and cripples them for life. The social face of the cricket stars bowled over Lucknowites, while they shattered …
After a gap of three years, Himachal Pradesh has been re-infected with the polio virus as a two-and-a-half-year-old male child of a migrant labourer from Uttar Pradesh, who lives in Solan district of Himachal Pradesh, has tested positive with wild type-3 polio virus. The child has a history of constant …
Pune A study conducted in the city, involving 300 mothers and their babies, to assess the effects of bivalent oral polio vaccine (bOPV) has helped in changing the national policy on the issue. The India Advisory Group in Polio Eradication has now recommended the use of bOPV
MUMBAI: The monthly Pulse Polio drive, which started on Sunday, covered 62% of city children, a percent less than the last drive. Of the total 13,10,000 children under the age of five, the BMC covered 8,09,000 children on Sunday. Dr Mangala Gomare, the civic in-charge of the drive, said that …
LUCKNOW: The additional round of polio immunisation began here on Sunday with district magistrate Amit Ghosh administering polio drops to children at the Aishbagh Eidgah. As many as 2.60 lakh children were administered polio drops at various booths across the district. Giving information, chief medical officer Dr AK Shukla said …
Mumbai: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to integrate its pulse polio campaign with the drive against malaria. This integrated approach will materialise from November 9 to 15. A working plan has been prepared for the health ambassadors, BMC's health officials, to visit 33 lakh households in the next …
The broad picture of immunisation in Africa is one of excellent progress and enthusiastic energy, with amazing advances having been made since the turn of the century. There has been a large drop in mortality due to measles, and about a third of countries now use a three dose regimen …
Greater Noida: Uttar Pradesh tops the country with 397 polio cases of P-3 virus, including three recent cases of P-3 virus detected in Kalaunda village of Dadri. The cases include 28 cases of P-1 virus. In all 33 new cases of polio have been confirmed in districts of Gautam Budh …
