"A glimpse into the mindset of the average member of the Taliban Militants in northern Pakistan have triggered a medical emergency by refusing to allow health officials to conduct a polio vaccination campaign....
A massive polio vaccination initiative has begun in Western Africa. Over 150 thousand people have been sent out to administer the immunization to more than 53 million children under the age of 5. Nigeria has been the...
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The International Public Health Forum welcomes the recent whirlwind around polio in Nigeria is a welcome development that should create the necessary drive towards a final putsch to pull the final chapter to an embarrassing problem. The fact that this embarrassment is...
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A sizeable child population is facing risk of infection from poliovirus in conflict-stricken areas, as anti-polio campaigners fail to reach vulnerable populations. Poliomyelitis particularly affects young children because of their lack of immunity and can cause...
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This latest developement in the field of polio research can win one of the last frontirs of polio eradication.Nigeria is one of the four country where polio has yet to be eradicated, 82%of reported case so far...
Seven years ago, Clodagh Foelster lost her baby boy Toby. One week later, his twin brother Zac showed similar symptoms. Was it due to immunization shots? This is her story."I belong to a very exclusive club. We...
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" MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A woman who spent nearly 60 years of her life in an iron lung after being diagnosed with polio as a child died Wednesday after a power failure shut down the machine that kept her...
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My heart and prayers go out to the family " A Tennessee woman who spent almost all of her life in an iron lung died after a power outage shut down the machine. The woman, Dianne Odell, 61, had been restricted to...
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Children in New Jersey's public schools and day cares must get two new vaccines by September, state health authorities recommended Monday over objections by parents who fear that immunizations can cause...
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""DTB-HB vaccine is the ninth vaccine made by PT Bio Farma which has received the WHO recognition. The other eight vaccines produced by PT Bio Farma which have also received a similar recognition are DT, DTP, TT,...
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"Nigeria is fighting a rare outbreak of a vaccine-derived form of polio, says the UN's World Health Organization.
It says 69 children in the north have caught the paralysing disease from others who had already been immunised.
The WHO says such rare outbreaks have occurred...
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Within this year India, Pakistan, Nigeria and Afghanistan will receive levels of vaccination coverage that have made outbreaks of Polio a thing of the past for the rest of the world, according to the World...
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"Health officials in Pakistan say a drive to immunize more than 160,000 children against polio is being jeopardized by rumors the vaccine causes impotence.
The BBC reported that rumors spread by local clerics via FM radio allege that the vaccines are an "American conspiracy"...