Amid this backdrop, 1954 saw the launch of an ambitious, first-of-its-kind trial: the Salk vaccine was tested on over 1.6 million schoolchildren. Dubbed “Polio Pioneers,” the children were enrolled en ...

A celebration is planned for tomorrow (June 17) to mark the return of Cochrane Rotarian Dan Paarsmarkt, who has completed a 1 ...

While polio often struck children, older people were not immune. The disease consigned former President Franklin D. Roosevelt ...

KARACHI - Health officials have raised concern as thousands of parents in Karachi continue to refuse polio vaccination for ...

Karachi: The number of refusal cases started increasing after thousands of parents continuously refused to vaccinate their ...

Papua New Guinea (PNG) has taken a major step in the fight against polio, with the arrival of more than 4.6 million life-saving vaccine doses to kickstart a nationwide immunisation blitz. The shipment ...

Ubale, shortly after the kick-off immunization campaign in Bunkure, rushed home and brought forward his two-year old daughter ...

Papua New Guinea's health minister, Elias Kapavore, says polio vaccines are set to arrive in the country next week. The World ...

Federal Minister for Health Mustafa Kamal on Monday urged politicians, religious scholars, academia, civil society’s members, ...

Recent media reports have highlighted a shortage of polio vaccines in Kenya, caused by several factors, including delayed disbursement of global funds earmarked for health programmes and the ...

Health authorities have confirmed the first case of wild poliovirus in Gilgit-Baltistan this year, raising Pakistan's ...

ISLAMABAD: As many as 47 environmental samples have tested positive for poliovirus, according to an official of ...