1246 GMT August 09, 2022
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Gunmen on Tuesday targeted an anti-polio drive in eastern Afghanistan, killing at least five members of two vaccination teams in separate attacks, officials said.
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As scientists around the world rush to find a vaccine to stem the spread of COVID-19, another deadly disease, polio, has become the latest target of misinformation campaigns online.
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In a Perspective piece published in the journal Science, a small international team of researchers is suggesting that the oral polio vaccine be tested to see if it might protect people from infection by the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
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Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) stated that all immunization campaigns will be suspended for the next six months to prevent further transmission COVID-19 and make available resources to fight the pandemic.
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The second of three forms of the polio virus has been eradicated, experts have announced.
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After a campaign launched against polio vaccinations on social media, a 25 percent increase in refusals was recorded during the recent polio campaign in the federal capital, which started Dec. 10.
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The spread of polio must still be classified as a public health emergency because, while progress has been made towards wiping out the disease, that progress is fragile, the World Health Organization (WHO) said.
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Since 2000, nearly three billion children around the world have been given more than 10 billion doses of oral polio vaccine.
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More than 150 countries have begun switching to a different polio vaccine ― an important milestone towards polio eradication, health campaigners say.
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An official says the World Health Organization (WHO) hopes to eradicate polio in 2016, after containing outbreaks in conflict-ridden Syria, Iraq and Somalia by immunizing millions of children over two years.
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It has been one full year since no polio was detected anywhere in Africa, a significant milestone in global health that has left health experts around the world quietly celebrating.
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Delegates at the World Health Assembly on Saturday agreed on a resolution in which Member States recommit to stopping polio and to preparing for the phased withdrawal of oral polio vaccines.
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Pakistani authorities have conducted their first-ever mass arrest of parents for refusing to allow their children to be vaccinated against polio.
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At least four members of a polio vaccination team have been found murdered in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan.
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Scientists from the US and UK hope to create a wholly artificial and safe vaccine to combat polio by copying the viral genome.
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