Officials say Pakistan has begun its last nationwide vaccination campaign for the year to protect 45 million children from ...

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Since the late 1980s, global polio cases have decreased by more than 99% alongside increased vaccination efforts to eradicate the disease, from an estimated 350,000 cases to just six reported in ...

The health ministry said on Wednesday that 60 per cent of 2024’s 59 polio cases occurred in unvaccinated children. Three more polio cases last week took the country’s annual tally to 59.

Most of the world’s polio cases are now caused by vaccine-derived virus. In 2023, the number of polio cases caused by vaccine-derived strains was 524, down from 881 in 2022. CNN’s Manu Raju ...

Rebecca Noble/Getty Invented by U.S. physician Jonas Salk, the vaccine helped nearly eradicate polio around the world. The World Health Organization reports that by 1957, annual cases dropped from ...

The polio vaccine has all but obliterated the illness ... partner who has fielded high-profile vaccine injury and policy cases, including “extensive litigation against federal agencies for ...

Pakistan is thus going through one of its worst years in the fight against polio, which registered its largest outbreak in 2019, with 147 infections, and in 2020, with 84 cases. The numbers ...