Pakistan records spike in new polio cases, hampering efforts ... - ABC News
WEB12 hours ago · ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan has witnessed a spike in new polio cases since March, officials said Wednesday, in a troubling sign as the government seeks to eradicate the disease in the country.
Pakistan records spike in new polio cases ... - Associated Press News
WEB13 hours ago · Officials say Pakistan has witnessed a spike in new polio cases since March, in a troubling sign as the government seeks to eradicate the disease in the country.
Pakistan records spike in new polio cases, hampering efforts to …
WEB12 hours ago · ISLAMABAD — Pakistan has witnessed a spike in new polio cases since March, officials said Wednesday, in a troubling sign as the government seeks to eradicate the disease in the country.
Pakistan Begins Vaccination Program Against Polio - The New …
WEBSep 13, 2024 · On Monday, Pakistan began a weeklong nationwide polio vaccination campaign involving 286,000 health workers — the largest public health surveillance network in the world — aimed at...
Q&A: Uncovering Pakistan’s fight against polio - Al Jazeera
WEBAug 8, 2024 · Since 2015, Pakistan has reported 362 polio cases, including 13 this year so far. One of the victims, a two-year-old boy, died in May, while some others have been paralysed. This year, six...
Statement of the Thirty-ninth Meeting of the Polio IHR Emergency …
WEBAug 13, 2024 · The committee noted the conclusion of recently held meeting of the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) on polio eradication in Afghanistan and Pakistan that despite overall progress, endemic transmission has been re-established in the historic reservoirs of Kandahar (Afghanistan) and Peshawar (Pakistan) and there is risk of its re-establishment in ...
Government Urgently Appeals to Parents to Vaccinate Children as …
WEB1 day ago · The Polio Programme is launching a nationwide polio campaign from October 28 to vaccinate more than 45 million children, while a Big Catch-up initiative, led by the Expanded Programme for ...
Will Pakistan ever be able to eradicate polio? - Al Jazeera
WEBJul 2, 2024 · Will Pakistan ever be able to eradicate polio? Six poliovirus cases have been reported so far this year along with numerous positive samples. But the country’s fight is not just against the...
Progress Toward Poliomyelitis Eradication — Pakistan,
WEBOct 20, 2022 · This report describes Pakistan’s progress toward polio eradication during January 2021–July 2022 and updates previous reports (4,5). As of August 20, 2022, all but one of the 14 WPV1 cases in Pakistan during 2022 have been reported from North Waziristan district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Progress Toward Poliomyelitis Eradication — Pakistan...
WEBAug 17, 2023 · This report describes Pakistan’s progress toward polio eradication during January 2022–June 2023. During 2022, Pakistan reported 20 WPV type 1 (WPV1) cases, all of which occurred within a small geographic area encompassing three districts in south Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.