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While the Salk vaccine mostly eliminated polio in Virginia, a surprise outbreak led to a new push for immunization in ...
Cases have been rising in Afghanistan and Pakistan — and global health specialists are worried that this year's U.S. foreign aid cuts could... The world is so close to wiping out polio.
The world is so close to wiping out polio. But in 2025, there are signs that the virus is not quite ready to go the way of smallpox — the only disease eradicated by humans. Two countries are ...
The world is so close to wiping out polio. But in 2025, there are signs that the virus is not quite ready to go the way of smallpox — the only disease eradicated by humans. Two countries are seeing an ...
A health worker in Karachi administers polio drops — the oral vaccine — on February 3, the first day of a nationwide polio vaccination campaign. The country, one of only two where wild polio ...
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 13 (ANI): Polio virus has been found in 25 sewage samples from 20 districts across Pakistan, according to ARY News. The latest weekly environmental tests, conducted between ...
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 13 (ANI): Polio virus has been found in 25 sewage samples from 20 districts across Pakistan, according to ARY News. The latest weekly environmental tests, conducted ...
Environmental surveillance has detected wild poliovirus in sewage samples from 20 districts across Pakistan, officials said, though data suggests a decline in overall virus circulation.