The National Primary Health Care Department Agency, NPHCDA, says a total of 17 circulating variant poliovirus type 2(cVPV2), ...

At least two security personnel were killed and another injured in an ambush on a polio vaccination team in southwestern ...

The Kano State Government has announced plans to vaccinate over 4.1 million children against polio in a statewide campaign ...

The 1950s was a turning point for polio. Amid deadly outbreaks, Jonas Salk developed a vaccine that saved countless lives ...

The oral dose is cheap and widely used but can cause paralytic polio in areas with low coverage and poor health. The new vaccine does away with this danger.

A militant was killed in a police shootout as a polio vaccination team faced an attack in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Pakistan has confirmed its seventh polio case of the year after the virus was detected in a child from the northwest ...

The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) has said that polio transmission is still active in Nigeria, adding that all necessary measures were needed to stop the disease.This came ...

A total of 17 circulating variant poliovirus type 2(cVPV2), cases have been recorded across 15 LGAs in eight states, this year, the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) has said.

KARACHI: The National Emergency Operations Centre (NEOC) on Sunday said that poliovirus was detected in 25 environmental samples taken from 20 districts nationwide. Samples taken from Quetta ...

Pakistan’s Health Minister Mustafa Kamal on Monday highlighted the urgent need for action to combat polio and said environmental samples detected the presence of the poliovirus in all districts of ...

KARACHI: In a concerning development for the country's ongoing efforts to eradicate poliovirus, Federal Health Minister ...