Unidentified gunmen shot and killed on Monday a police officer working on Pakistan's first polio vaccination drive of the ...
A Pakistan police officer travelling to guard polio vaccinators was shot dead Monday, police said, on the first day of a ...
The Pakistani Taliban claimed the killing of a police officer as he travelled Monday to guard polio vaccinators on the first day of a nationwide immunisation effort after a year of rising cases. The ...
Health workers vaccinate a 2-year-old child during a polio vaccination campaign in January 2015 in a rural area of Tehsil Fateh Jang, Punjab in Pakistan. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/ CDC Global ...
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — After years of decline, polio is surging again in this populous South Asian nation, dimming hopes that the viral disease — eradicated nearly everywhere else on Earth ...
Not being able to eradicate polio primarily epitomises the failure of governance in contemporary Pakistan and the failure to meet decades-old global obligations. It also shows that our resolve to ...
A senior World Health Organization official cautioned Wednesday that the eradication of polio in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the only countries where the paralytic virus persists, is threatened by ...
ISLAMABAD: Poliovirus has been detected in environmental samples collected from 26 districts of the all four provinces. According to health ministry officials, it is the first time in 2025 that ...
Pakistan is one of the last two countries in the world, alongside Afghanistan, where polio remains endemic. Officials say that Pakistan has been res­ponding to a “significant re­­­surgence ...