Police is a highly infectious disease that invades the nervous system and can cause total paralysis in a matter of hours.

When her 5-year-old son’s legs stopped working and a doctor said the word “polio,” this writer felt a terror she never ...

As a polio survivor, I believe that lethal diseases will recur if RFK Jr. is the next secretary of Health and Human Services.

Wild poliovirus was almost eradicated globally two years ago, but poor conditions are causing cases to rise in Afghanistan and spill into Pakistan. https://p.dw.com/p ...

The National Emergency Operation Centre (NEOC) on Wednesday said that the country’s first polio case of the year was reported in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Dera Ismail Khan district. Pakistan is one ...

As many as 11 polio cases were reported from DI Khan in 2024 while 73 cases in total were confirmed throughout the country, the NEOC said. The first nationwide vaccination campaign against ...

I am one of only two members of Congress who are polio survivors. In 1954, my father was a pediatrician in Memphis, Tennessee. As part of the worldwide effort to stop polio, he was given a limited ...

Polio is a deadly disease that cannot be cured if a person is infected. It is highly contagious and falls under the category of viral diseases. It primarily affects the nervous system of a person ...

IN the global fight against polio, Pakistan has long been a stubborn holdout. In 2024, the situation only worsened. In the outgoing year, the country recorded 67 cases of the paralytic virus ...

Polio is a major threat in fragile and conflict-affected settings. According to the GPEI, 85% of polio cases in 2024 were in these settings. 4 Routine immunisation has substantially reduced in such ...

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