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PAKISTAN’S polio case count, with 105 days of the year lapsed so far, is in the single digits. But the question ...
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Pakistan, Afghanistan will start joint anti-polio drives: minister
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for National Health Services and Regulations Mustafa Kamal, Monday, while spelling ...
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UNICEF engages Bauchi monarchs in polio vaccine campaign
The United Nations Children’s Fund has disclosed it success in getting the support of the traditional rulers in Bauchi State ...
To eradicate polio once and for all, we need a new vaccine—that's what we're working on
Aside from recent outbreaks of polio in war-torn regions of the world, the deadly virus is close to being eradicated, thanks ...
Measles exploded in Texas after stagnant vaccine funding. New cuts threaten the same across the US
The measles outbreak in West Texas didn’t happen just by chance. Health officials say the easily preventable disease has ripped through communities sprawling across more than 20 Texas counties in part ...
Daily Times on MSN1d
85% of polio-resistant families reside in Karachi: Kamal
Federal Minister for National Health Services, Regulations & Coordination Syed Mustafa Kamal on Sunday said that of the families refusing to immunise their children against poliovirus, 85 per cent of ...
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Community celebrates polio vaccine anniversary, discusses vaccine skepticism
The 70th anniversary celebration of the Salk polio vaccine took place Friday afternoon in the Teplitz Memorial Courtroom in ...
Takeaways from AP's report on how flat funding set stage for Texas measles outbreak, might fuel more
The measles outbreak in West Texas didn’t happen just by chance. The easily preventable disease, declared eliminated in the U ...
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85pc of polio vaccination refusals are in Karachi: Health Minister Mustafa Kamal
Federal Minister for Health Mustafa Kamal on Sunday said that of the families refusing to immunise their children against poliovirus, 85 per cent of them reside in Karachi alone.
La Jolla’s Salk Institute celebrates 70th anniversary of polio vaccine
On April 12, 1955, the vaccine developed by Jonas Salk and his colleagues was officially declared ‘safe, effective and potent ...
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Georgia gathers at Little White House on 80th anniversary of FDR’s death
President Franklin D. Roosevelt died in Warm Springs, Georgia at his Little White House. On Saturday, the 80th anniversary, people gathered to pay tribute.
Deseret News archives: Salk and brave ‘pioneers’ beat polio with vaccine in 1955
The front page of the Deseret News on April 12, 1955, as the Salk polio vaccine was declared effective and safe for Americans ...