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The World Health Organization extended travel restrictions on Pakistan for three months due to concerns about wild poliovirus ...
Pakistan has reported its 11th polio case of the year in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, after a 10-month-old boy from Union Council Mullazai in Tank district tested positive for the virus.The Regional Reference ...
Pakistan's poliovirus cases rise to 17 this year with new detections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh. Despite eradication ...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Islamabad on Saturday confirmed three new polio cases in the country, taking the ...
Vaccination rates during door-to-door drives can surpass 90%, according to Pakistan Polio Programme data, but these campaigns only offer the oral vaccine. To receive the injectable vaccine ...
Vaccination rates during door-to-door drives can surpass 90%, according to Pakistan Polio Programme data, but these campaigns only offer the oral vaccine. To receive the injectable vaccine ...
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan efforts to eliminate polio suffered another blow on Monday after a northern enclave reported its first case in seven years. Overall, it was the country' ...
An officer stands guard on Dec. 17 as a health worker administers polio drops to a child during a door-to-door vaccination campaign in Karachi, Pakistan. (Rizwan Tabassum/AFP/Getty Images) ...
Pakistan held its first polio vaccination drive of 2025, sending workers door-to-door to vaccinate 45 million children. A spike in cases in 2024 was a setback for the eradication of the disease.
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan began Monday a weeklong second nationwide vaccination campaign aimed at protecting 45 million children from polio, officials said. According to the World Health Organization ...
ISLAMABAD: The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health (NIH) in Islamabad on ...
The new case was reported after Pakistan on Sunday wrapped up its third nationwide polio vaccination drive of the year, aiming to immunize 45 million children. Mohammad Iqbal, a director at the ...