In the global war against polio, one of the world’s most dangerous hotspots tests the limits of vaccination campaigns amid ...

A delegation from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Polio Branch, led by Dr. Richard Franka, met with Commissioner Karachi, Syed Hasan Naqvi, to discuss sustained efforts in the ...

The CDC Polio Branch delegation was led by Dr Richard Franka, and met with Commissioner Karachi Syed Hasan Naqvi to discuss ...

A mysterious polio-like disease could challenge our healthcare infrastructure. And, zooming in on non-cancerous cells in and ...

Pakistan efforts to eliminate polio suffered another blow on Monday after a northern enclave reported its first case in seven ...

Pakistan's poliovirus and routine immunisation programmes have independent ... Integrating the two programmes within one command and control structure and appointing the best managers on strict merit ...

Bassey Eyo, a mother of three, living in Cross River State was delighted that she and her child could receive the COVID-19 vaccine and the novel Oral Polio Vaccine (nOPV2) respectively at a health ...

Poliovirus infection occurs by the fecal-oral route. The host ingests the virus, which replicates in the alimentary tract. The virus is then shed in the feces. Most polio infections are ...

The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), a public-private partnership established in 1988 to wipe the disease off the planet, manages a highly sophisticated reporting structure because polio is ...

He said polio is one of the major primary healthcare ... governments are going to put in place a transparent process and structure to undo the reality of the country as one with one of the highest ...