And yet against all odds, we’ve been able to administer the first doses of the polio vaccine to 559,161 children. I have been ...

Keta (VR) Oct 17, GNA – The Health Directorate at Keta in the Volta Region has announced the commencement of polio ...

The Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip said it has launched the second round of a polio vaccination campaign in the ...

The Health Ministry has decided to phase out vaccinating with the bOPV component against polio, which is given orally as part ...

The spread of polio in Pakistan is increasing despite government efforts to combat the virus throughout nation. On Wednesday, officials in Pakistan said the country has seen a sharp increase in ...

This commentary was adapted from episode 142 of the Health & Veritas podcast. Polio is back in the news, again. Over two years ago, we talked about a serious polio threat in the New York area, when ...

The campaign began last month after the territory registered its first polio case in Gaza in 25 years — a 10-month-old boy, ...

The virus can be transmitted through the faecal-oral route, or by droplets from the throat of an infected person. The symptoms include fever, headache, vomiting, fatigue, and limb pain. Polio can be ...

Lee Sherry has previously worked on a WHO-funded project to develop new vaccines for poliovirus. The Taliban recently announced that they are suspending its polio vaccination campaign in Afghanistan.

YEAH. SO AGAIN I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT THE DEVELOPMENT OF THESE POLIO LIKE SYMPTOMS IS VERY RARE, BUT COULD BE VERY SERIOUS. SO THE SYMPTOMS TO BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR WOULD BE EITHER LEG OR ARM ...