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polio

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  • Gunmen kill two policeman guarding polio vaccination team in Pakistan

    Gunmen kill two policeman guarding polio vaccination team in Pakistan

    Two officers guarding a polio vaccination team in northwest Pakistan were shot dead by unidentified assailants, police said Tuesday, the latest deaths ...
    World News
  • Polio found in New York wastewater as state urges vaccinations

    Polio found in New York wastewater as state urges vaccinations

    The polio virus was present in wastewater in a New York City suburb a month before health officials there announced a confirmed case of the disease ...
    World News
  • Fears of medicine shortages and disease outbreak in Ukraine after Russian invasion

    Fears of medicine shortages and disease outbreak in Ukraine after Russian invasion

    Ukraine is running low on critical medical supplies and has had to halt urgent efforts to curb a polio outbreak since Russia invaded the country, ...
    World News
  • Bill Gates visits Pakistan to discuss polio eradication with PM Imran Khan

    Bill Gates visits Pakistan to discuss polio eradication with PM Imran Khan

    Microsoft Corp co-founder turned philanthropist Bill Gates visited Pakistan on Thursday, meeting with Prime Minister Imran Khan to discuss polio ...
    Healthy Living
  • Afghanistan begins nationwide polio eradication campaign

    Afghanistan begins nationwide polio eradication campaign

    The Taliban-run Afghan public health ministry announced on Sunday the start of a four-day nationwide polio vaccination campaign aimed at inoculating ...
    World News
  • Polio teams attacked in Afghanistan, four people killed

    Polio teams attacked in Afghanistan, four people killed

    Gunmen on Tuesday targeted members of polio teams in eastern Afghanistan, killing at least four staffers, officials said.No militant group immediately ...
    World News
  • Philippines becomes polio-free after vaccination campaign: WHO

    Philippines becomes polio-free after vaccination campaign: WHO

    The Philippines is once again polio-free, the World Health Organization said Friday, after a successful vaccination campaign that has raised hopes for ...
    World News
  • Policeman escorting team of polio workers in Pakistan killed by gunmen

    Policeman escorting team of polio workers in Pakistan killed by gunmen

    Gunmen riding on a motorcycle shot and killed a policeman in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday as he escorted a team of polio workers.For all the ...
    World News
  • World Polio Day is a reminder of hope and a useful lesson for fighting coronavirus

    World Polio Day is a reminder of hope and a useful lesson for fighting coronavirus

    Looking back on 2020, silver linings are few and far between. The global coronavirus pandemic has brought a year of calamity and continues to ...
    World
  • New polio outbreak in Sudan linked to vaccine-sparked epidemic in Chad

    New polio outbreak in Sudan linked to vaccine-sparked epidemic in Chad

    The World Health Organization says a new polio outbreak in Sudan is linked to an ongoing vaccine-sparked epidemic in Chad – a week after the UN health ...
    World News
  • COVID-19: 80 million children at risk of vaccine-prevented diseases, says WHO, UNICEF

    COVID-19: 80 million children at risk of vaccine-prevented diseases, says WHO, UNICEF

    Some 80 million children worldwide could be at risk of vaccine-preventable diseases like diphtheria, measles and polio due to disruption of routine ...
    Coronavirus
  • Pakistan policeman killed as blast hits polio vaccine team

    Pakistan policeman killed as blast hits polio vaccine team

    A policeman was killed and two others wounded Tuesday by a roadside bomb aimed at polio vaccination workers in Pakistan’s restive northwest, ...
    World News
  • Two killed in attack on Pakistan polio vaccination security team

    Two killed in attack on Pakistan polio vaccination security team

    Gunmen killed at least two policemen in an attack on a polio vaccination security team in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, the latest setback in the ...
    World News
  • Gunmen in Pakistan kill policeman guarding polio eradication team

    Gunmen in Pakistan kill policeman guarding polio eradication team

    Gunmen in Pakistan shot and killed a police officer guarding a polio immunization team on Wednesday, the latest attack on efforts to protect children ...
    World News
  • Why Pakistan’s polio eradication program is hit by conspiracy theories

    Why Pakistan’s polio eradication program is hit by conspiracy theories

    It has been 24 years since former prime minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto administered an oral polio vaccine to her daughter, Aseefa Bhutto, to ...
    Features
  • Pakistan’s anti-polio campaign faces new challenge, social media

    Pakistan’s anti-polio campaign faces new challenge, social media

    Pakistan’s decades-long struggle against polio is facing a new challenge – social media.Dr Rana Safdar, National Coordinator for the ...
    Digital
  • Polio worker shot dead in NW Pakistan: Officials

    Polio worker shot dead in NW Pakistan: Officials

    A health worker who had been immunizing children against polio was shot dead in Pakistan’s northwestern province Saturday, the provincial health ...
    World News
  • WHO says child from Raqqa among 15 new polio cases in Syria

    WHO says child from Raqqa among 15 new polio cases in Syria

    Fifteen new cases of polio have been confirmed in Syria, including a child who may have caught the disease in Raqqa, the World Health Organization ...
    Middle East
  • Pakistan polio official killed in Peshawar

    Pakistan polio official killed in Peshawar

    Attempts to eradicate polio in Pakistan have been hit by militant attacks on inoculation teams resullting in 100 deaths
    Gulf
  • Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: A life is being saved for every $1000

    Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: A life is being saved for every $1000

    Hassan Al-Damluji, Head of Middle East Relations at Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, highlights his organization’s activities in the region
    Economy
  • UAE immunizes more than 20 million Pakistani children

    UAE immunizes more than 20 million Pakistani children

    The UAE has immunised more than 20.6 million Pakistani children against polio
    Healthy Living
  • Pakistan arrests parents for refusing children’s polio vaccinations

    Pakistan arrests parents for refusing children’s polio vaccinations

    Community opposition and Taliban threats block efforts to eradicate the crippling disease in one of its last strongholds
    Features
  • Abducted polio immunization team found murdered in Pakistan

    Abducted polio immunization team found murdered in Pakistan

    Local militants had abducted the vaccination worker, two local tribal policemen and a driver
    Asia
  • Polio immunization rate in Syria close to pre-war level - WHO

    Polio immunization rate in Syria close to pre-war level - WHO

    The regional vaccination drive launched by aid agencies has now reached most areas in Syria’s 14 governorates
    Middle East
  • WHO: No new polio cases in Syria for a year

    WHO: No new polio cases in Syria for a year

    While the landmark did not guarantee that Syria was polio-free, WHO said the mass immunization had been successful
    Middle East
  • Polio vaccinations surge in Pakistan

    Polio vaccinations surge in Pakistan

    The WHO declared a "public health emergency" at the start of May 2014 after new polio cases began surfacing and spreading across borders ...
    Perspective
  • Polio risk still hangs heavy over Syria’s children

    Polio risk still hangs heavy over Syria’s children

    Children in Syria’s violence-plagued areas are still at risk of infection
    Features
  • WHO declares polio ‘public health emergency’

    WHO declares polio ‘public health emergency’

    The announcement came as new cases of the crippling disease surfaced in a number of countries
    World News
  • UNICEF to vaccinate 10 mln against polio

    UNICEF to vaccinate 10 mln against polio

    A campaign to reach children across the Middle East will begin this month in efforts to eradicate the uncurable disease
    Middle East
  • Islamic group slams anti-polio vaccine fatwas

    Islamic group slams anti-polio vaccine fatwas

    Some areas of Muslim-majority countries still remain affected by the disease, which is easily preventable through a vaccine
    Middle East
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