ISLAMABAD: An estimated 500,000 children missed polio vaccinations during this month’s countrywide inoculation drive, the ...

Following a rise in polio cases in Pakistan, the country’s media has reported two new cases of polio, or child paralysis, ...

Increasing figures of polio are disappointing to a campaigner looking to wipe out the disease, but she is hopeful that ...

Militant attacks and suspicion stemming from misinformation are hampering Pakistan's battle to eradicate polio, but teams of ...

Polio can easily be prevented by the oral administration of a few drops of vaccine, but in parts of rural Pakistan health ...

They told Dawn that in the last door-to-door anti-polio campaign from Oct 28 to Nov 3, the vaccinators missed only 1.5 per ...

KARACHI: The country's polio virus tally for the year has risen to 46 as another child was crippled by the contagious disease ...

Pakistan and Afghanistan are the only two countries in the world where the spread of polio has never been stopped. It is one of the world’s most infectious diseases, so it continues to spread ...

Polio can easily be prevented by the oral administration ... in attacks since the return of the Taliban in neighbouring Afghanistan in 2021, with Islamabad claiming hostile groups are now ...

Pakistan has confirmed its 46th case of wild poliovirus (WPV1) in 2024, with the latest case detected in a male child from ...

Karachi- At least seven people, including five schoolchildren and a policeman, were killed while 17 others were injured on ...

A programme in Gaza is trying to vaccinate 100,000 children against polio after it was detected there for the first time in 25 years. Though largely eradicated around the world, thousands of Kiwis are ...