Polio

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation pledges $1.2 billion to eradicate polio worldwide

The money will be used to help implement the Global Polio Eradication Initiative's strategy through 2026. The initiative is trying to end the polio virus in Pakistan and Afghanistan, the last two endemic countries, the foundation said in a statement

Oral polio vaccine under scanner amid recent outbreaks in US, UK and Israel

As per the World Health Organization, more than 2,600 polio cases have been linked to the oral vaccine since 2017

Oral Polio vaccines causing more infections than wild virus; Polio in US, UK and Israel reveals

Since 2017, there have been 396 cases of polio caused by the wild virus, versus more than 2,600 linked to the oral vaccine, according to figures from the World Health Organization and its partners

Polio cases reemerge in several Western nations as battle against COVID continues

According to a recent report by news agency Reuters, on 12 August health authorities identified polio virus in the wastewater of New York City, suggesting the local transmission of the virus

In US, news of poliovirus in wastewater leaves parents peturbed; get vaccinated, say doctors

Although there has been only one case of paralytic polio in the New York area, health officials believe they may only be seeing 'the tip of the iceberg' in terms of polio’s wider circulation, since paralytic cases are so rare

Explained: Why London is offering polio vaccine booster doses to children

London will offer a polio booster vaccine to one million children aged 1-9 years after the virus was detected in sewage samples across the capital

New evidence suggests possible 'community spread' of polio in New York

According to health experts, the polio virus has been identified in seven different wastewater samples in two adjacent counties north of New York City

Pakistan: Polio eradication campaign in disarray, 12 new cases reported this year

Pakistan is one of the two polio-endemic countries in the world along with its neighbour Afghanistan

Pakistan comes under scrutiny as UK detects poliovirus after four decades

Pakistan Polio Eradication Programme National Coordinator Dr Shahzad Baig told the Dawn newspaper that it was too early to say the virus had travelled from Pakistan, as UK authorities were yet to announce the results of genome sequencing

Vaccine-derived polio virus detected in London sewage samples: WHO

The World Health Organization assured that no human cases of polio have been found in Britain, where the crippling disease was fully eradicated two decades ago