The State Commissioner for Health, Alhaji Lawal Liman gave the commendation at the 2018 World Polio Day celebration held in Gusau on Wednesday. The State Commissioner for Health, Alhaji Lawal Liman ...

The independent Africa Regional Certification Commission (ARCC), responsible for certifying the eradication of wild poliovirus in the World Health Organization (WHO) African Region, is set to make its ...

FILE - A health worker administers a polio vaccine to a child in Karachi, Pakistan, Monday, Jan. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan, File) LONDON (AP) — Polio was eliminated from most parts of the world ...

From 60 pc of global cases to zero: India celebrates 15-year milestone in polio elimination ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There’s a reason you rarely hear about people catching polio—let alone dying from the highly infectious disease—particularly in ...

The United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, has called on the Kano State Government to declare a State of emergency on polio and routine immunisation following a resurgence of the disease in the state ...

The decision follows a high-level review by the subject expert committee for vaccines, which raised an alarm over the safety ...

In the 1940s and 1950s, hospital wards in the U.S. were filled with iron lungs helping many children, and some adults, who had polio breathe and stay alive. The use of polio vaccines have helped make ...