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%, …
About 13.5 crore children up to the age of five were vaccinated at 650,000 centres all over the country in the fourth and final round of the nationwide Pulse polio immunisation programme recently. About 1,000 hectares of wasteland will be developed in Erode district, Tamil Nadu, at a cost of …
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) have called on the leaders of countries where polio still exists to give full cooperation to the global effort to eradicate the disease by the end of this year. "We are on the verge of an historic public …
The second phase of the anti-polio programme in Pakistan commenced from November 30. Some 7.2 million children under five years will be given polio drops. According to the health department, volunteers and health workers manning more than 30,000 mobile units have been given specific centres in the province for administering …
A newly-formed organisation in Bangladesh, Forum for Arsenic Patients (fap), has threatened to sue the United Nations Children's Fund (unicef) for compensation on behalf of millions of unsuspecting victims of arsenic poisoning. The hand-pump system, introduced to wean the vast majority of Bangladeshis off contaminated surface water, was identified as …
The division bench of the Mumbai high court consisting of Ochief Justice M B Shah and justice Jahangirdar directed the Union department of family welfare to place an order of 4.3 crore doses of oral polio vaccine with Haffkine Bio-Pharmaceutical Corporation Ltd. It has been agreed that the department of …
IT MAY not be possible to eradicate poliomyelitis from the world by the year 2000 unless adequate resources are mobilised in time, warn World Health Organisation (WHO) officials. Bruce Aylward, in-charge of the WHO Global Polio Eradication Initiative, says that only a few polio-endemic countries are left in the world. …
Efforts to vaccinate children in eastern Africa against polio have been so successful that the region is expected to be polio-free by 2000, according to the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention in Altanta, US. The incidence of polio in east Africa dropped by 91 per cent between 1988 and …
millions of children crippled by polio may be able to walk without crutches. A herbal medication developed by a resident from Haripur Dak - a remote village in Purnea district of Bihar - holds promise for the polio-affected. Pancham K Das has successfully tested the herbal medicine on several patients, …
Although considerable progress has been made towards the complete eradication of polio by the year 2000, the fact remains that polio cannot be eliminated anywhere unless it is eliminated everywhere. Of the 213 countries under surveillence, 145 reported zero cases in 1993. There is no doubt that polio can become …
SOMETIMES the mode of administering a vaccine into the human body may affect its efficacy considerably. This has been reinforced by American scientists working on the effectiveness of polio vaccine. According to recent reports it is being sugges ed that there should be a gradual transition from oral polio vaccine …
WHILE the world celebrates a dramatic reduction in polio incidents, its scientific and medical communities mourn the death of the conquerer of the disease -- Jonas Salk -- at the age of 80 from heart failure on June 23, at Green Hospital, La Jolla, California. Salk's story is one of …
THIS year, the World Health Organization (who) set apart April 7 as World Health Day to highlight the international campaign for polio eradication and to provide necessary momentum to it for an envisaged polio-free world. But even while the who director-general, Hiroshi Nakajima, in his message on the occasion, called …
The Union ministry of environment and forests (MEF) is caught in middle of a raging debate over the use of monkeys in the manufacture of oral polio vaccine (OPV). While the Maharashtra government has sought permission from MEF to use bonnet and rhesus monkeys for producing OPV, experts have pointed …
POLIOMYELITIS, a paralysing disease that used to strike as many as 600,000 children each year, is fast disappearing from almost all over the globe but the Indian subcontinent remains vulnerable, warns the World Health Organisation (WHO). In the Western hemisphere, the last case of paralytic polio was reported over 2 …
ALBERT Bruce Sabin, developer of oral polio vaccine, has died of heart failure in Washington. He was 86. A prominent figure since the 1930s in research on virus and viral disease, Sabin developed a sweet, cherryred vaccine after 20 years of research. It came into wide use in the first …
