No Polio Cases

Amidst concerns over resurfacing of polio cases in India, the WHO today said there is "no threat" to the polio-free status of all South East Asian region countries, including India, and the detection of a rare strain of the crippling disease is "not unusual".

Nigeria could cut the number of polio cases to zero next year and be declared free of the disease in 2018 even though a national eradication campaign has had to contend with an insurgency in the north, Bill Gates told Reuters.

Tamil Nadu government today said the state has not reported a single polio case in the last nine years, as it prepares for the second round of Pulse Polio Campaign in which two lakh personnel would be employed.

India must receive "due appreciation" as it has been a year since its last case of polio was reported, said a leading Pakistani daily. An editorial in the Dawn on Saturday said that India is marking the passage of a full year since its last case of polio was reported.

India has reason to smile on the polio front, especially on January 13. Not only will it achieve a big milestone of no new case for a year, there are also indications that the World Health Organisation (WHO) will remove it from its list of polio endemic countries by February.

India is likely to win the fight against the most dangerous strain of polio, with no cases reported this year in the badly hit Uttar Pradesh.

Amidst concerns over resurfacing of polio cases in India, the WHO today said there is "no threat" to the polio-free status of all South East Asian region countries, including India, and the detection of a rare strain of the crippling disease is "not unusual".

Nigeria could cut the number of polio cases to zero next year and be declared free of the disease in 2018 even though a national eradication campaign has had to contend with an insurgency in the north, Bill Gates told Reuters.

Tamil Nadu government today said the state has not reported a single polio case in the last nine years, as it prepares for the second round of Pulse Polio Campaign in which two lakh personnel would be employed.

India must receive "due appreciation" as it has been a year since its last case of polio was reported, said a leading Pakistani daily. An editorial in the Dawn on Saturday said that India is marking the passage of a full year since its last case of polio was reported.

India has reason to smile on the polio front, especially on January 13. Not only will it achieve a big milestone of no new case for a year, there are also indications that the World Health Organisation (WHO) will remove it from its list of polio endemic countries by February.

India is likely to win the fight against the most dangerous strain of polio, with no cases reported this year in the badly hit Uttar Pradesh.