Pakistan Polio Outbreak: Sindh Reports Second Case Of 2025
Pakistan has logged yet another positive case of polio virus making it the second case of 2025 after the first case that was reported from Dera Ismail Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
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Pakistan has logged yet another positive case of polio virus making it the second case of 2025 after the first case that was reported from Dera Ismail Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
2024 was the year when many countries reported a resurgence of the polio virus either among sewage and water or among people. Let us take a look at the countries affected.
Three countries in Europe, Germany, Spain and Poland reported poliovirus in wastewater which raised alarms of a potential resurgence of the deadly disease.
Four more cases of polio virus have been detected in Pakistan taking the tally up to 37 this year.
In an effort to make Gaza polio-free again, a second round of vaccination campaign has begun from the 14th of October with an aim to cover 591,700 children.
UNRWA Chief reports the successful vaccination of 90 per cent of the children in Gaza against polio virus, also says, "Next challenge is to provide children with their second dose at the end of September."
Amidst relentless onslaught by Israel Defense Forces, Gaza is also facing a polio outbreak, the first in the last 25 years. Find out how the UN bodies are trying to counter this disease in the region.
Amidst the devasting conflict going on in the Gaza Strip, a 10-month-old baby has been paralysed due to type 2 polio virus urging the UN to call for a humanitarian pause to inoculate all babies.
A severe health disaster looms over the Gaza Strip after the Gaza Health Ministry detected the component poliovirus type 2 in the sample sewage water flowing between camps of displaced Palestinians.
Poliovirus is found in the sewage of New York; know why this disease is spreading so rapidly.
Eight cases of polio has been reported in Pakistan because the residents mark themselves and their children as vaccinated and the other residents refuse to take the vaccine.
Pakistan has logged yet another positive case of polio virus making it the second case of 2025 after the first case that was reported from Dera Ismail Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
2024 was the year when many countries reported a resurgence of the polio virus either among sewage and water or among people. Let us take a look at the countries affected.
Three countries in Europe, Germany, Spain and Poland reported poliovirus in wastewater which raised alarms of a potential resurgence of the deadly disease.
Four more cases of polio virus have been detected in Pakistan taking the tally up to 37 this year.
In an effort to make Gaza polio-free again, a second round of vaccination campaign has begun from the 14th of October with an aim to cover 591,700 children.
UNRWA Chief reports the successful vaccination of 90 per cent of the children in Gaza against polio virus, also says, "Next challenge is to provide children with their second dose at the end of September."
Amidst relentless onslaught by Israel Defense Forces, Gaza is also facing a polio outbreak, the first in the last 25 years. Find out how the UN bodies are trying to counter this disease in the region.
Amidst the devasting conflict going on in the Gaza Strip, a 10-month-old baby has been paralysed due to type 2 polio virus urging the UN to call for a humanitarian pause to inoculate all babies.
A severe health disaster looms over the Gaza Strip after the Gaza Health Ministry detected the component poliovirus type 2 in the sample sewage water flowing between camps of displaced Palestinians.
Poliovirus is found in the sewage of New York; know why this disease is spreading so rapidly.
Eight cases of polio has been reported in Pakistan because the residents mark themselves and their children as vaccinated and the other residents refuse to take the vaccine.
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