File photo A 4-year-old child has been confirmed to be disabled by polio in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province. According to the authorities, 5 cases of polio have been reported in Afghanistan and Pakistan so far this year. Officials say that the polio virus found in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province is also coming to Pakistan. According to Hakam,…
Third case of polio has been reported in Afghanistan this year. According to the Afghan media from Kabul, the polio case was reported in Nazian district of Nangarhar province. All three cases of polio in Afghanistan have been reported in Nangarhar. setTimeout(function(){ !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s) {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod? n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)}; if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version=’2.0′; n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0; t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,’script’, ‘https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/fbevents.js’); fbq(‘init’, ‘836181349842357’); fbq(‘track’, ‘PageView’); },…
File photo The sub-polio campaign has started across the country from today, with a target of immunizing more than 23 million children. According to the spokesman of the Ministry of Health, the polio campaign is being conducted in two phases, the first phase is from May 15 to 19, during which children will be administered…
File photo The first case of polio was reported in Afghanistan this year. According to the National Institute of Health, Islamabad, a 4-year-old child was disabled by polio in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province. The NIH has said that 1 to 2 cases of wild poliovirus have been reported in the world this year. The National Institute…
Polio virus has been confirmed in Peshawar and Hangu. The spokesman of the Ministry of Health has said that polio virus has been found in the environmental samples of Peshawar and Hangu. In this regard, Federal Health Minister Abdul Qadir Patel said that the virus is genetically related to the virus found in the Afghan…
A post-shooting scene at an institute building, with bullet marks visible on the outer wall. Militants in Sudan seize a local laboratory. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the laboratory contains samples of polio, measles and cholera and other dangerous materials. The World Health Organization says that the occupation of the laboratory by the…
File photo The second phase of the anti-polio campaign in different regions of the country has started today. According to the spokesperson of the Ministry of Health, the campaign is being conducted in 27 districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the second phase. According to the spokesman, the anti-polio campaign in 12 districts of Balochistan will…
Heath authorities said there was a confirmed case in an unvaccinated four-year-old child in Isale district, in western Burundi, as well as two other children with whom he had been in contact “Additionally, five samples from environmental surveillance of wastewater confirmed the presence of the circulating poliovirus type 2”, said a press release issued by…
—File photo The spokesman of the Ministry of Health has said that the anti-polio campaign is starting tomorrow, March 13, this campaign is being organized in 2 phases. In this regard, Federal Health Minister Qadir Patel has said that parents must give their children immunizations in every campaign. He says that an anti-polio campaign will…
Photo Sanjay Mathrani Twitter Islamabad / Karachi: The Ministry of Health has decided to create awareness among the public in a unique way about polio and vaccination in Pakistan. The spokesperson of the Ministry of Health said that to raise awareness among parents and the public, art regarding polio awareness will be made on the…
