Pakistan on Monday began its last nationwide vaccination campaign for the year to protect 45 million children from polio ...

The last push of the year is taking place to try to eradicate polio in Pakistan, one of only two countries left where the ...

Pakistan and Afghanistan are the only two remaining countries that have not been able to stop the spread of poliovirus. Since ...

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

Polio is a highly infectious disease, mostly affecting young children. It attacks the nervous system and can lead to spinal and respiratory paralysis, and in some cases death, according to the Wo ...

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 ...