Polio Top Stories
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World Polio Day 2025: A Reminder To Protect Every Child In Polio-Free India
Oct 24, 2025 08:55 ISTWorld 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. -
Expert Speaks: All About Polio Vaccination
May 23, 2025 07:00 ISTWhile there is no cure, vaccination is the best way to prevent polio. -
Polio And Post-Polio Syndrome: Understanding The Long-Term Health Effects
Oct 24, 2024 07:02 ISTWorld 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. -
World Polio Day 2024: Theme, History, Importance & Why Drops Are Necessary
Oct 24, 2024 01:10 ISTWorld 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
Oct 24, 2021 12:46 ISTThe Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) developed a new roadmap for immunizing all children and ending polio once and for all. -
World Polio Day 2017: How India Went From 4 Lakh To Zero Cases In 10 Years
Oct 24, 2017 04:06 ISTWorld Polio Day 2017: Here's an insight to India's journey towards the complete eradication of polio in the country. -
World Polio Day 2017: Here's An Insight To This Fatal Disease
Oct 24, 2017 03:02 ISTWorld Polio Day 2017: Though there is no cure for polio, you can always sought to a prevention of this disease. -
One And Half Year Old Dies After Getting Polio Vaccination
Sep 22, 2017 12:06 ISTA one and a half year old toddler dies only over an hour later after he was administered with the polio drops in the Abdullapur Basti in Ludhiana. -
World Has 2 Weeks To Replace Problem Polio Vaccine: WHO
Apr 15, 2016 11:14 ISTThe World Health Organization on Friday gave countries two weeks to replace a problem polio vaccine blamed for some outbreaks of the crippling disease, which the UN health agency is hoping to wipe out once and for all. -
Pakistan, Afghanistan Reports 2016's First Polio Cases: Reports
Feb 6, 2016 09:49 ISTPakistan and Afghanistan have reported the first cases of polio for the year 2016, a media report said today. -
Safer Polio Vaccine Strains For Post-Eradication Era Developed
Jan 1, 2016 03:01 ISTResearchers have developed new polio vaccine strains that is particularly suitable for a post-eradication era as these strains appear both effective and unable to cause disease after accidental release. -
Injectible Polio Vaccine Launched in India
Nov 30, 2015 05:34 ISTIndia's first injectible inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) was today launched by Health Minister JP Nadda as part of the country's commitment to global polio eradication. -
Change in Vaccine Use Needed To Eradicate Polio, WHO Says
Oct 25, 2015 01:13 ISTThe World Health Organisation (WHO) has suggested the withdrawal of a specific type of an oral polio vaccine used against the Type II variant from April next year. -
Polio Case Detected in Mali, Country on 'High Alert': WHO
Sep 8, 2015 02:12 ISTMali is on high alert after a baby was found to have the highly contagious, crippling polio virus, the World Health Organization said Monday, blaming low vaccination coverage. -
India's polio fight at crucial stage
Jun 24, 2008 10:10 ISTIndia has reached a crucial stage in its fight to eradicate the crippling disease, polio. -
Bihar floods bring new worries about polio
Aug 21, 2007 02:26 ISTIndia needs to make extraordinary efforts to immunise children against polio in Bihar, as massive flooding disrupts pulse polio drive in many parts of the state. -
India fights back against type-1 polio strain
Jul 20, 2007 11:49 ISTIndia is likely to win the fight against the most dangerous strain of polio, with no cases reported this year in the badly hit Uttar Pradesh. -
Indian priests administer polio drops
Apr 23, 2007 12:16 ISTHindu priests are blessing children with polio drops instead of traditional holy water, sweets or fruits to help eradicate the crippling disease in an eastern Indian state. -
India to wipe out polio in three years
Dec 22, 2006 01:48 ISTIndia will be free from polio in the next three years, said Health Minister on Tuesday. -
Poor immunisation leads to polio outbreak in India
Nov 28, 2006 01:01 ISTA poor immunisation drive and widespread filth in India's most populous state of Uttar Pradesh have fueled a polio outbreak, killing about two dozen children. -
Polio could be eradicated by end of decade
Nov 21, 2006 03:33 ISTNew vaccine could wipe out polio in northern India and lead to global eradication of the crippling disease by the end of the decade. -
Polio cases on the rise in Uttar Pradesh
Oct 1, 2002 05:18 ISTEfforts to eradicate polio in India have received a setback. A poliomyelitis epidemic has hit India -
Scientists manufacture polio virus
Jul 29, 2002 07:19 ISTAmerican scientists have synthesised the polio virus which has raised questions about biological safety, ethics and the ability of bioterrorists to replicate the procedure.
