Polio

Source: news.yahoo.com --- 16 days ago
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is increasing its commitment to eradicating Polio by $150 million in new spending this year. ...

Source: news.yahoo.com --- 8 days ago
AP - An eight-month-old Pakistani girl has tested positive for Polio in an area where militants campaigned against vaccination, a World Health Organization official said Thursday. ...

Source: news.bbc.co.uk --- 7 days ago
Pakistani health officials record a new case of Polio in Swat district despite local militants pledging to not resist vaccinations. ...

Source: topics.nytimes.com --- 7 days ago
An 8-month-old Pakistani girl has tested positive for Polio in an area where militants have opposed vaccination, a World Health Organization official said. ...

Source: thelede.blogs.nytimes.com --- 8 days ago
In the Swat Valley of Pakistan, where Islamic militants have obstructed vaccination programs, a new case is reported for the first time in five years. ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 11 hours ago
Kolkata, July 24 A Polio-stricken youth was charred to death in his one-room flat at 2/A Taraknath Chatterjee Lane in north Kolkata. On Wednesday night, Babu Gupta (25) went to bed around midnight with his father Om Prakash. ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 11 hours ago
Tom Domingue was 8 years old and had just finished second grade when he contracted Polio. He caught the virus in 1945, as did tens of thousands of others.It was a time when Polio epidemics broke out in the hot summer months. ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 3 days ago
PESHAWAR (APP): Another Polio case have been detected here at Tehsil Kabal on Monday taking the total number of patients to two while the laboratory results of two more children have been stopped. ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 1 day ago
Pakistan on Thursday confirmed a new case of Polio in an eight-month-old boy in the southern port city of Karachi, health officials said. This is the third case of crippling type P1 Polio in Pakistan this month. ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 16 hours ago
Rotary International yesterday honoured President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua with the Polio Eradication Champion Award for his leadership in support of a Polio-free world. ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 3 days ago
SWAT: Another Polio case has been detected here at Kabal tehsil on Monday taking the total number of patients to two. ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 7 days ago
(AP) -- An eight-month-old Pakistani girl has tested positive for Polio in an area where militants campaigned against vaccination, a World Health Organization official said Thursday. ...

Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com --- 18 days ago
Health minister Nand Kishore Yadav on Sunday urged people of the state to join hands for complete eradication of Polio from Bihar. ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 18 days ago
KOLKATA July 6: In an effort to propagate the message that Polio drops should be administered to all babies, members of Rotary International today took Mr Gautham Lewis, a victim of Polio and an ambassador of the organisation and made a door-to-door ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 14 days ago
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Source: www.moreover.com --- 21 days ago
Public Health Minster has rejected allegations that the Polio vaccine used in Cameroon is harmful. Vaccination against Polio in Cameroon is an oral one. That is, a drop of the Polio vaccine is introduced into the month of a child. ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 15 days ago
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Source: www.moreover.com --- 18 days ago
: Concerned about the renewed Polio threat in the country, leading Indian industrialist families like the Birlas and Mittals have stepped forth with generous financial support to the immunisation drive against the disease in India and elsewhere. ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 8 days ago
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Source: www.moreover.com --- 23 days ago
HYDERABAD, July 1: Director Administration of the D-G health office Sindh, Abdul Majeed Chuttho, has said that an alarming situation has developed in Sindh after detection of 10 Polio cases in the province. ...