Tag: polio

Catch up on the biggest stories of Friday, 22 May 2026 that you may have missed, in our simple daily news update. In the news today, two strains of polio have been detected in wastewater samples from a treatment plant in Cape Town, Western Cape. Meanwhile, South Africa’s new ambassador to the US Roelf Meyer

A health worker administers polio drops to a child at a railway station during a polio vaccination campaign in Lahore. — AFP/File NIH reference lab verifies case via surveillance network. Response planning begins to curb further transmission. Next nationwide vaccination campaign planned for April. Pakistan's National Emergency Operations Centre for Polio Eradication (NEOC) today confirmed

In the global war against polio, one of the world’s most dangerous hotspots tests the limits of vaccination campaigns amid conflict, climate change and vanishing funds...

Listen to article ISLAMABAD: The National Institute of Health reported the country’s second case of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) for the new year on Wednesday when a sample from Sindh’s Badin district tested positive at its laboratory in Islamabad. The first case of the year was reported from Dera Ismail Khan district, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. A

Polio, the virus that causes paralysis in humans and is easily preventable by a vaccine, is back in Nigeria. The new development came to the fore on September 23, 2024, during the meeting of religious leaders organised by the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) in collaboration with the Sultan Foundation for Peace and