Pakistan Reports Three New Polio Cases, including first from …
WEB3 days ago · Today the Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health confirmed three new cases of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) in Pakistan. Three children have been needlessly paralyzed by polio from Killa Abdullah in Balochistan, Karachi Kemari in Sindh, and Mohmand in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Pakistan Begins Vaccination Program Against Polio - The New …
WEBSept. 13, 2024. For a brief moment two years ago, Pakistan seemed finally on the verge of defeating polio. One of only two countries in the world where the virus remains endemic, Pakistan recorded ...
Polio's last stand: The global fight for eradication - Medical Xpress
WEB3 days ago · Today, polio remains endemic only in two countries—Pakistan and Afghanistan. The global public health community now has one primary task: to eliminate polio in these last few strongholds and get ...
Gunmen kill a polio worker and a policeman during a vaccination ...
WEBSep 11, 2024 · Pakistani police say gunmen on motorcycles opened fire on police escorting a team of polio workers during a door-to-door vaccination campaign in the northwest, killing an officer and a polio worker.
Gunmen kill a policeman guarding polio workers in northwestern Pakistan
WEBSep 12, 2024 · PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A pair of gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire on Thursday and killed a policeman guarding a group of polio workers going door-to-door in a vaccination campaign in northwestern Pakistan, police said, the second attack on the country’s anti-polio campaign in as many days.
Q&A: Uncovering Pakistan’s fight against polio - Al Jazeera
WEBAug 8, 2024 · Since 2015, Pakistan has reported 362 polio cases, including 13 this year so far. One of the victims, a two-year-old boy, died in May, while some others have been paralysed. Keep reading. Will...
Will Pakistan ever be able to eradicate polio? - Al Jazeera
WEB2 Jul 2024. Health workers have begun a campaign to vaccinate 9.5 million children against polio in 41 districts in Pakistan this week. This latest round of a national vaccination drive will...
Progress Toward Poliomyelitis Eradication — Pakistan...
WEBAug 17, 2023 · This report describes Pakistan’s progress toward polio eradication during January 2022–June 2023. During 2022, Pakistan reported 20 WPV type 1 (WPV1) cases, all of which occurred within a small geographic area encompassing three districts in south Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Progress Toward Poliomyelitis Eradication — Pakistan,
WEBOct 20, 2022 · This report describes Pakistan’s progress toward polio eradication during January 2021–July 2022 and updates previous reports (4,5). As of August 20, 2022, all but one of the 14 WPV1 cases in Pakistan during 2022 have been reported from North Waziristan district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
New polio case in Pakistan as Gaza vaccine campaign completes …
WEBSep 13, 2024 · Topics. Polio. Pakistan has a new polio case this week, according to the weekly report from the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), while healthcare workers in Gaza have completed the first week of a massive vaccination campaign in the war-torn region. In Pakistan, one wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) …