Pakistan held its first polio vaccination drive of 2025, sending workers door-to-door to vaccinate 45 million children. A spike in cases in 2024 was a setback for the eradication of the disease.

The Taliban are taking over the operations of Afghanistan’s only luxury hotel in Kabul, more than a decade after they launched a deadly attack there that killed nine people. The Serena Hotel ...

Cancel any time. The Taliban are taking over the operations of Afghanistan’s only luxury hotel in Kabul, more than a decade after they launched a deadly attack there that killed nine people.

Kennedy to Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon): “I support the measles vaccine. I support the polio vaccine. I will do nothing as HHS secretary that makes it difficult or discourages people from taking ...

Today, polio remains endemic only in Afghanistan and Pakistan. It’s crucial to continue working to keep other countries polio-free and to eradicate Polio in those two countries. If all eradication ...

After being endemic in over 125 countries at the time of GPEI’s launch, Pakistan and Afghanistan ... as wild poliovirus free. Nigeria was able to eliminate wild polio, thanks partly to the ...

Washington, D.C. — A jiya Laraba wani babban jami’in Hukumar Lafiya ta Duniya WHO, ya yi jan hankali kan cewa, shafe cutar Polio a kasashen Afghanistan da Pakistan, kasashe 2 kacal da suka rage masu ...

A senior World Health Organization official cautioned Wednesday that the eradication of polio in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the only countries where the paralytic virus persists, is threatened by ...

The remote, and in some parts lawless, provinces share a border with Afghanistan, the only other country where polio remains endemic. Cases have been rising there, too: from two in 2022 to 25 last ...

Social support plays an essential role in preventing polio, he said. Afghanistan and neighbouring Pakistan are countries where polio cases are reported every year, Xinhua news agency reported.

Social support plays an essential role in preventing polio, he said. Afghanistan and neighbouring Pakistan are countries where polio cases are reported every year, Xinhua news agency reported.