The Latest Breaking News from Polio

Pulse Polio Immunisation programme in Thiruvananthapuram on March 3

Health department arranges 23,471 booths, including mobile and transit booths, to administer the vaccine to children. A total of 46,942 volunteers and 1,564 supervisors have been trained to conduct the drive in the State.

Intensified Pulse Polio campaign in Cuddalore district to vaccinate 0-5 year olds with 1,611 booths set up.

MYSURU pulse polio drive to cover 20,000+ children in Chamarajanagar taluk with 189 booths and 779 staff deployed.

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An officer wounded in a bombing that targeted police assigned to protect polio vaccination workers has died in a hospital in northwest Pakistan

A roadside bomb has exploded near a van carrying police assigned to protect workers in an anti-polio immunization campaign in restive northwestern Pakistan, killing at least six officers and wounding 10 others

Bomb blast kills at least five police officers deployed to protect polio vaccination workers in northwestern Pakistan.

Medical experts are concerned about the rising cases of measles and polio in the US, pointing to immigration and vaccine hesitancy as potential causes. Pub...

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Professor Emeritus Umaru Shehu, who died on 2 October 2023, was born in Yerwa (Maiduguri), Nigeria, in 1930. Widely regarded as one of the country’s early leaders in public health policy and practice, he was the first public health physician in the northern region and remained active all his life.