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World Polio Day 2025: A Reminder To Protect Every Child In Polio-Free India
World Polio Day serves as an opportunity to recognise the contributions of scientists, healthcare professionals, volunteers, researchers, and organisations that have worked tirelessly to protect children and communities.
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Explained: Why World Polio Day Is Observed On October 24
Polio, or poliomyelitis, is a crippling and potentially deadly infectious disease caused by the poliovirus.
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World Polio Day 2024: Theme, History, Importance & Why Drops Are Necessary
World Polio Day 2024: Below we share the theme, history, importance of this day and discuss the importance of polio drops.
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Opinion: World Polio Day 2021- Ending Polio For Good
The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) developed a new roadmap for immunizing all children and ending polio once and for all.
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Parents Made To Wait At Punjab Anti-Polio Camp For Minister's 'Photo-Op'
Punjab cabinet minister Sunder Sham Arora landed into a possible controversy after he allegedly made infants along with their parents wait for over two hours at a polio vaccination camp in Hoshiarpur for photo-op.
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World Polio Day 2017: How India Went From 4 Lakh To Zero Cases In 10 Years
World Polio Day 2017: Here's an insight to India's journey towards the complete eradication of polio in the country.
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World Polio Day 2017: Here's An Insight To This Fatal Disease
World Polio Day 2017: Though there is no cure for polio, you can always sought to a prevention of this disease.
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India Polio Free, Neighbours Remain A Concern
On World Polio Day today, India, which was declared polio-free in March 2014, has a lot of reasons to cheer. Some concerns, though, cloud the merriment. Photo Credit: AFP After the World Health Organisation declared India a polio free nation in 2014, the government had warned that wild polio continues to thrive in India’s neighbourhood – in Pak...
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Polio Vaccine Makers Fail To Make Enough Doses: World Health Organisation
Geneva: Two companies making vaccines to help the world eradicate polio are failing to produce enough, so many countries should prepare to give lower doses to make stocks last, a group of experts has advised the World Health Organisation or WHO. With polio on the brink of eradication globally, the WHO wants to see a worldwide switch from the tradi...
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How India Finally Beat Polio
12,000 crores spent and much learnt, writes Deepak Kapur.
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World Polio Day 2025: A Reminder To Protect Every Child In Polio-Free India
World Polio Day serves as an opportunity to recognise the contributions of scientists, healthcare professionals, volunteers, researchers, and organisations that have worked tirelessly to protect children and communities.
-
Explained: Why World Polio Day Is Observed On October 24
Polio, or poliomyelitis, is a crippling and potentially deadly infectious disease caused by the poliovirus.
-
World Polio Day 2024: Theme, History, Importance & Why Drops Are Necessary
World Polio Day 2024: Below we share the theme, history, importance of this day and discuss the importance of polio drops.
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Opinion: World Polio Day 2021- Ending Polio For Good
The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) developed a new roadmap for immunizing all children and ending polio once and for all.
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Parents Made To Wait At Punjab Anti-Polio Camp For Minister's 'Photo-Op'
Punjab cabinet minister Sunder Sham Arora landed into a possible controversy after he allegedly made infants along with their parents wait for over two hours at a polio vaccination camp in Hoshiarpur for photo-op.
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World Polio Day 2017: How India Went From 4 Lakh To Zero Cases In 10 Years
World Polio Day 2017: Here's an insight to India's journey towards the complete eradication of polio in the country.
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World Polio Day 2017: Here's An Insight To This Fatal Disease
World Polio Day 2017: Though there is no cure for polio, you can always sought to a prevention of this disease.
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India Polio Free, Neighbours Remain A Concern
On World Polio Day today, India, which was declared polio-free in March 2014, has a lot of reasons to cheer. Some concerns, though, cloud the merriment. Photo Credit: AFP After the World Health Organisation declared India a polio free nation in 2014, the government had warned that wild polio continues to thrive in India’s neighbourhood – in Pak...
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Polio Vaccine Makers Fail To Make Enough Doses: World Health Organisation
Geneva: Two companies making vaccines to help the world eradicate polio are failing to produce enough, so many countries should prepare to give lower doses to make stocks last, a group of experts has advised the World Health Organisation or WHO. With polio on the brink of eradication globally, the WHO wants to see a worldwide switch from the tradi...
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How India Finally Beat Polio
12,000 crores spent and much learnt, writes Deepak Kapur.
