In a decisive move to counter these escalating threats and inject renewed vigor into the final stages of eradication, Rotary and the Gates Foundation today announced a substantial joint commitment of ...

Gaza's polio vaccination campaign starts. ... The first case of polio in Gaza in a quarter century was confirmed earlier this month in a 10-month-old baby, who developed paralysis in one leg.

Vaccination is just a piece of the polio response. For the next six months, officials will need to be vigilant to ensure there's no virus circulating in either the people or the wastewater of Gaza.

The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund has launched a statewide immunisation campaign aimed at vaccinating over one million children against polio in Taraba State.The campaign was ...

UNICEF said during the first two full days of the vaccination campaign, about 160,000 children received a dose of polio vaccine. Poliovirus was first detected in sewage samples from Deir al-Balah ...

DUBAI — The Taliban has suspended polio vaccination campaigns in Afghanistan, the U.N. said Monday. It’s a devastating setback for polio eradication, since the virus is one of the world’s ...

Parents and caregivers in Bunkure Local Government Area of Kano State, have whole-heartedly embraced vaccination of their ...

Polio vaccinations lag at some schools: Check your district Likely errors in state data were identified by the USA Today Network but still a few schools stood out with low vaccination levels.

The rate among children 5 and under across New York City who have three doses of the polio vaccine is 86 percent. But vaccination by ZIP code shows much lower rates across a range of neighborhoods ...

Polio vaccination rate for 2-year-olds is as low as 37% in parts of N.Y. county where paralysis case was found Samples of the virus found in wastewater suggest it is spreading in the area, but ...

It’s rare, but turns polio vaccination into a far more challenging project than it otherwise would be. There have been 24 outbreaks of this vaccine-derived polio strain, causing more than 700 cases.