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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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Polio And Post-Polio Syndrome: Understanding The Long-Term Health Effects
World Polio Day 2024: In this article, we will explore polio, the long-term health implications of Post-Polio Syndrome, and the need for continued awareness and support for individuals affected by these conditions.
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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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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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Three New Polio Cases Surface in Pakistan on Awareness Day
Three more polio cases have surfaced in Pakistan, increasing the number of new cases in the country to a record 220, the WHO said on Friday as countries across the globe observed World Polio Day to raise awareness about the crippling disease.
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Opinion: How India Finally Beat Polio
12,000 crores spent and much learnt, writes Deepak Kapur.
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Pakistani jets bomb militant hideout, a day after Taliban ceasefire plan
The Pakistani military said it had bombed the hideout of a militant leader on Sunday, killing five insurgents, only a day after the Taliban declared a one-month ceasefire to pursue stalled peace talks with the government.
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United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to visit Pakistan
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will arrive in Islamabad on Tuesday for a two-day visit, the state media reported on Saturday.
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Three dead in fresh Pakistan polio attacks
Gunmen killed three people working on a polio vaccination campaign in Pakistan on Wednesday, officials said, as the nationwide drive against the crippling disease suffered a third day of bloodshed.
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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.
-
Polio And Post-Polio Syndrome: Understanding The Long-Term Health Effects
World Polio Day 2024: In this article, we will explore polio, the long-term health implications of Post-Polio Syndrome, and the need for continued awareness and support for individuals affected by these conditions.
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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.
-
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.
-
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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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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Three New Polio Cases Surface in Pakistan on Awareness Day
Three more polio cases have surfaced in Pakistan, increasing the number of new cases in the country to a record 220, the WHO said on Friday as countries across the globe observed World Polio Day to raise awareness about the crippling disease.
-
Opinion: How India Finally Beat Polio
12,000 crores spent and much learnt, writes Deepak Kapur.
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Pakistani jets bomb militant hideout, a day after Taliban ceasefire plan
The Pakistani military said it had bombed the hideout of a militant leader on Sunday, killing five insurgents, only a day after the Taliban declared a one-month ceasefire to pursue stalled peace talks with the government.
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United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to visit Pakistan
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will arrive in Islamabad on Tuesday for a two-day visit, the state media reported on Saturday.
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Three dead in fresh Pakistan polio attacks
Gunmen killed three people working on a polio vaccination campaign in Pakistan on Wednesday, officials said, as the nationwide drive against the crippling disease suffered a third day of bloodshed.
