While the five countries reporting the virus maintain high immunization coverage, with three doses of the inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV), subnational coverage of the third dose of the polio ...

SINGAPORE – On Feb 7, a five-month-old Indonesian girl who arrived in Singapore for emergency medical treatment was confirmed to be a case of vaccine-associated polio. According to the Ministry ...

A concerning development has emerged in Pakistan's fight against polio. Recent sewage samples collected from Mirpurkhas, Thatta, and Naushahro Feroze districts in Sindh have tested positive for ...

Pakistan’s first nationwide polio campaign of 2025 launched the first week of February, aiming to vaccinate over 45.4 million children under the age of 5 in 159 of the country's 166 districts.

“No one cares,” he said, even though unvaccinated children can contract polio by drinking contaminated water. For 47-year-old Rafi Ullah Kundi, a lawyer, the resurgence of the virus in his ...

Bhutta, who has worked extensively in the region, attributes the resurgence of polio cases in Pakistan to the spillover of the virus from Afghanistan. "It has spread to all districts of Pakistan.

Mass immunization programs had Pakistan on the brink of eradicating polio in 2023, with just six remaining cases of the wild form of the virus. But now, cases are climbing again — 73 cases were ...

AUSTIN, Texas — In the early 1950s, it was hard to avoid seeing the heartbreaking pictures in magazines and newspapers of children stricken with polio, a virus that struck fear in parents ...

Pakistan's struggle with polio remains a glaring public health ... has led to resistance against vaccinations, allowing the virus to persist. The mobility of populations, especially between ...

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday launched the first nationwide anti-polio campaign for the year 2025, the Prime Minister’s House (PMO) reported. The campaign will commerce on February 3 ...

That includes vaccines for measles, chickenpox and polio. "I started doing research, and I saw that a lot of doctors were just having a really hard time answering the questions that I had," Vargas ...