WHO Ban On Pakistan: विश्व स्वास्थ्य संगठन (WHO) ने पोलियो के मामलों को लेकर पाकिस्तान की यात्रा पर बैन तीन माह तक और बढ़ा दिया है. ये जानकारी पाकिस्तान के ARY न्यूज़ ने दी है. न्यूज़ एजेंसी एएनआई की रिपोर्ट के मुताबिक WHO की इमरजेंसी कमेटी की ओर से 6 मार्च को की गई बैठक…
Pakistan on Saturday reported another case of poliovirus, taking the year’s tally to six, posing a setback to the country’s efforts at eradicating the crippling disease. The fresh case was reported from Thatta district of Sindh, one of the major-hit provinces last year. “The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of…
“People will die,” said Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi, executive director of the African Population and Health Research Center, “but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.” The projects terminated include H.I.V. treatment programs that had served millions of people, the main malaria control programs in the worst-affected African countries…
Polio vaccines at a pop-up vaccination clinic for polio at the Rockland County Department of Health in Pomona. (File photo: NYT) Most American parents hardly give thought to polio beyond the instant their child is immunized against the disease. But there was a time in this country when polio paralyzed 20,000 people in a year,…
Most American parents hardly give thought to polio beyond the instant their child is immunized against the disease. But there was a time in this country when polio paralyzed 20,000 people in a year, killing many of them. Vaccines turned the tide against the virus. Over the past decade, there has been only one case…