The Democratic Republic of the Congo has embarked on the second phase of a mass polio vaccination drive, aiming to immunise ...

The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health (NIH) has confirmed a polio case from District Tank in South Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. According to a statement ...

Model predicts millions of cases, hospitalizations, and deaths if routine childhood vaccination rates decline significantly.

Dedicated health workers crossed Pakistan to reach 45 million children in one week with the lifesaving polio vaccine, with ...

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 ...

Authorities were still trying to determine how the poliovirus, initially found in the southern port city of Karachi, had infected the child in Diamer, Mohammad Iqbal, a director at the polio programme ...

The lab confirmed detection of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) in sewage samples collected from Loralai, Quetta, Zhob, Islamabad, Abbottabad, Bannu, DI Khan, Peshawar, Tank, North Waziristan, ...

He felt that there was still much to learn about the poliovirus, and that the science could not be rushed. Against the prevailing advice of his peers, Salk forged ahead with plans to develop a ...

Islamabad: Wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) has been detected in environmental samples collected from eight districts of Pakistan between Jan. 15 and Jan. 24, 2025, the National Institute of Health ...

Poliovirus has been detected in wastewater across Spain, Germany, and Poland, raising concerns despite high vaccination rates. Learn about the risks and need for continued vigilance.

Poliovirus strains originating from regions where the virus remained in circulation led to outbreaks among unvaccinated people in Tajikistan and Ukraine in 2021, and Israel in 2022.

Poliovirus is detected in sewage when people shed traces of the virus in their poop, but it doesn’t necessarily mean that people are sick.