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In the global war against polio, one of the world’s most dangerous hotspots tests the limits of vaccination campaigns amid ...
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has ordered that polio immunization efforts be enhanced after the northern ...
Pakistan efforts to eliminate polio have suffered another blow after a northern enclave reported its first case in seven ...
Officials say gunmen have shot and killed a policeman assigned to protect polio workers in southwestern Pakistan before fleeing the scene QUETTA, Pakistan -- Gunmen shot and killed a policeman ...
Pakistan has not reported a single case of poliovirus since February 10 as a result of the dedicated nationwide anti-polio drives, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif was told in a meeting on Thursday.
Pakistan's Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication has detected Wild Poliovirus Type 1 in sewage samples from 18 districts, including Islamabad and major cities in all four provinces.
Pakistan has logged yet another positive case of polio virus making it the second case of 2025. According to the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio ...
Health workers vaccinate a 2-year-old child during a polio vaccination campaign in January 2015 in a rural area of Tehsil Fateh Jang, Punjab in Pakistan. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/ CDC Global ...
Wild poliovirus was almost eradicated globally two years ago, but poor conditions are causing cases to rise in Afghanistan and spill into Pakistan. https://p.dw.com/p ...
This crisis presents an opportunity to refine ... The world has eliminated smallpox and nearly vanquished polio. Pakistan’s stumbles risk squandering this progress. The virus’s resurgence ...