Official: Pakistan asking Indian celebrities to boost polio-eradication campaign
(AP)—A health official in Pakistan says four new polio cases have been detected in the country, bringing the number of children affected by the crippling disease this year to 276. Rana Mohammad Safdar, a senior official at the National Institute of Health in Islamabad, said Saturday the new...
Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria are the only three countries in the world where poliovirus could not be eradicated yet, the WHO said on its website, adding that the poliovirus can easily be imported into a polio-free country and can spread rapidly amongst unimmunized populations. There has be...
Pakistan recorded 72 cases of polio this year compared to 58 for all of 2012, a World Health Organisation (WHO) official said last week, with 50 coming in the lawless tribal areas along the Afghan border.
There were 306 cases of polio reported in Pakistan last year, according to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. Over half of these originated in the tribal areas bordering Afghanistan where polio vaccinations had been suspended for several years due to an ongoing security threat. The Pakistani ...
Gunmen shot dead a policeman and wounded another on Friday as they headed to Pakistan’s northwestern town of Topi to guard an ongoing polio campaign, officials said. It was the latest in a series of attacks by militants targeting polio teams following the imposition of an official ban by the...