PAKISTAN: FEARS THAT POLIO VACCINE CAUSES IMPOTENCY PERSISTAshfaq Yusufzai
"Our aim in this campaign is to apply the vaccine to eleven million children. This campaign will last for four days. Vitamin A tablets are also given to children under the age of five at the same time as the polio vaccination,” the spokesman said. Afghanistan and Pakistan are among the...
which they say is linked to Taliban insurgency in the region. WHO recommended that Pakistan, Syria and Cameroon, where polio is also a problem, require citizens to obtain a certificate proving they have been vaccinated for polio before traveling abroad...
1 Additionally, some in the general population have misconceptions about the vaccine. Until now, the government has not taken a hard line, which is necessary to control this issue. On March 2, 2015, police in Khyber– Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan, arrested more than 450 parents after they ...
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Pakistani child receives polio vaccine in NW Pakistan A Pakistani child receives polio vaccine during a vaccination campaign in northwest Pakistan's Peshawar on Jan. 16, 2017. (Xinhua/Umar Qayyum)
Pakistan is one of only three countries globally, with Afghanistan and Nigeria, where the poliovirus remains endemic. The outbreak led the World Health Organization earlier this year to ask Pakistan to impose mandatory vaccinations on travelers leaving the country....
According to the United Nations Children's Fund, Afghanistan and Pakistan are currently the only two polio-endemic countries in the world.■ A child receives a dose of anti-polio vaccine in Kabul, Afghanistan, Feb. 27, 2024. A new round of anti-polio campaign was launched in 21 out of ...
Vaccine--derived poliovirus, Thailand, 2003 A World Health Organization-sponsored polio eradication campaign aims to immunize 15 million children at immediate risk of the disease was disrupted in northern Nigeria after Islamic clerics in the region said the vaccination drive was part of a u.s. Rum...
polio . so far this year, there have been six known cases of polio infection, in afghanistan and pakistan—two of the three countries left in the world where polio remains. that's a dramatic drop from 1988, when the virus struck 350,000 people and the world health assembl...