Northern Pakistan has reported its first Polio case in almost seven years, dealing a blow to the South Asian nation’s campaign to eradicate the infectious disease. At such a critical moment in US ...

Pakistan efforts to eliminate polio have suffered another blow after a northern enclave reported its first case in seven years.

Pakistan is agonizingly close to ending polio, and women are on the frontlines. Khyal Baro didn't vaccinate her children for polio until after her youngest son, Abid Ullah, was diagnosed with the ...

ISLAMABAD – The threat of polio continues to loom large over Pakistan as 30 new environmental samples have tested positive ...

Mass immunization programs had Pakistan on the brink of eradicating polio in 2023, with just six remaining cases of the wild form of the virus. But now, cases are climbing again — 73 cases were ...

India celebrated the end of polio in March. Meanwhile, its neighbor, Pakistan contributed to 80% of polio cases in the world this year, the WHO says.

Islamabad — Pakistan launched a week-long nationwide polio vaccination campaign Monday, as the country remains one of only two around the world where the paralyzing virus still exists.. This ...

Polio-Free Afghanistan urged parents returning from Pakistan to vaccinate their children at border points to prevent the ...

Islamabad, Pakistan — Pakistan's fight to eradicate polio is marked with hopeful highs and disappointing lows. As the global community marks World Polio Day on October 24, the nuclear-armed ...

On Monday, Pakistan began a weeklong nationwide polio vaccination campaign involving 286,000 health workers — the largest public health surveillance network in the world — aimed at vaccinating ...

Police have arrested at least 513 parents in Peshawar, Pakistan, for not allowing their children to get the polio vaccine, an official says.