(CTN News) – Paul Alexander was paralysed by polio at the age of six and spent much of his life confined to a yellow iron lung...
(CTN News) – Polio, a once-ubiquitous disease, has been a persistent global health challenge. However, recent advancements and collaborative efforts suggest that we might be on...
It was recently revealed by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) that six nations reported an increase in polio incidence in 2023. Pakistan is one of...
(CTN News) – A total of 1, 275, 417 children in the Federal Capital Territory are being vaccinated against the white polio virus through the FCT...
(CTN NEWS) – The World Health Organization (WHO), according to a report by ARY News, has opted to prolong travel limitations on Pakistan for an additional...
(CTN News) – The International Health Regulations Emergency Committee has raised concerns about the progress of polio eradication efforts in Pakistan and Afghanistan. The committee evaluating...
(CTN News) – The polio virus was detected in wastewater collected from Rockland’s sewer system in February. It’s the first Rockland sample to test positive since...
(CTN News) – A three-year-old kid in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) tested positive for the poliovirus, marking the first paralyzing disease in Pakistan in 2023. Health officials...
(CTN News) – Several children from Israel have just recently tested positive for polio, and the State of New York’s health department has advised residents to...
(CTN News) – World Health Organization researchers have concluded that the risk of global spread of the poliovirus remains a public health emergency of international concern....
(CTN News) – More than 44 million children under five will get immunizations as part of Pakistan’s first statewide anti-polio campaign of the year. The three-day...
(CTN News) – Recent sequencing data published by state and federal health agencies show that Poliovirus is still being transmitted through wastewater samples in three upstate...
(CTN News) – The United States (and a large portion of the rest of the globe) has been polio-free for decades due to the development of...
World Polio Day (October 24): The 24th of October marks World Polio Day, a day that raises awareness and resources to eradicate polio. To mark the occasion and...
(CTN News) – CDC is considering using an oral polio vaccine for the first time in more than 20 years to stop an outbreak that paralyzed...
(CTN News) _ The covid-19 pandemic mostly wiped out a virus that can cause a polio-like paralysis in children. A surge of cases linked to enterovirus...
(CTN News) _ In this month’s State of Emergencies, polio case tops the list, joining monkeypox and COVID-19. NEWS 10 ABC has the latest details on...
(CTN News) _ Polio virus has been detected in wastewater from four counties and New York City since April, according to the governor. Unvaccinated man diagnosed...
For decades, health officials around the world have used billions of drops of an oral polio vaccine in a remarkably effective campaign aimed at wiping disease....
(CTN News) – It was reported in June that poliovirus had been detected in sewage in north and east London between February and May 2022. Following...