Nigeria: Polio Cases Drop By 99.9 Percent – WHO
The global health body said as many as 20 million children have been spared disability and are walking today. The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Monday said global…
The Differences Between the Two Polio Vaccines—and the New One on the Horizon
Before this year, polio didn’t feel like an urgent threat. The disease was eradicated in the U.S. in 1979, and thanks to a global vaccination campaign, it’s endemic…
World Polio Day 2022 – Is Polio Becoming a Wicked Problem?
“While polio exists anywhere, it’s a threat everywhere” — Ian Riseley, President, The Rotary Foundation Nigeria was declared wild poliovirus free on the 25th August 2020. The news…
Africa: Polio – Over 250 New Cases of Paralysis Recorded in Africa Says WHO
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that despite efforts to halt the outbreak of the circulating polio variant, more than 250 cases of paralysis from polio have…
The Global Fight Against Polio Continues. For Many the Effort Starts at Home. – Global Citizen
Hafsat Ibrahim, a polio core trainer with the World Health Organization (WHO) and mother of five, is proud of the many lives she has protected from polio in…
Polio – Emeka Offor Foundation Urges Increased Immunisation Surveillance
The Emeka Offor Foundation (SEOF) has enjoined the country to double its momentum towards continuous immunisation, rapid outbreak response, enhanced surveillance, fundraising, awareness, and advocacy… [read more]
In Afghanistan Female Vaccinators Protect Hard-To-Reach Children From Polio
UNICEF-supported female vaccination teams go where men cannot in Afghanistan to protect every child against polio. Two-year-old Abbas receives his oral polio vaccine from Morvarid, a UNICEF-supporte… [read…
Nigeria: 2 Years of Polio Free – Emeka Offor Urges Sustenance of Gains
Rotary International Polio Ambassador to Nigeria, Sir Emeka Offor has stressed the need for the nation to bolster efforts to sustain the eradication of wild polio in Nigeria…
Rude awakening: Return of polio to West…
LONDON Parents in London are scrambling for a vaccine. This time, it’s not the fear of COVID-19, but rather the return of a virus that in the past…
Fears of a polio resurgence in the US have health officials on high alert – a virologist explains the history of this dreaded disease
Critical-care patients in the emergency polio ward at Haynes Memorial Hospital in Boston in August 1955. Associated Press photo Fears of polio gripped the U.S. in the mid-20th…
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