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The COVID-19 pandemic has dealt an unprecedented blow to the world’s battle against polio, the head of the global organisation to combat the disease...
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Pakistan says Facebook will help the country in its fight against polio after authorities blamed anti-vaccine content posted last year on the social network...
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The Philippines Friday launched a programme to immunise millions of children from polio after the Asian nation was hit by its first outbreak of...
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The Philippines has detected its first case of polio since 2001, officials said Thursday, putting some of the blame on mistrust stoked by a...
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The global fight against malaria has stalled and requires massive investment as well as political leadership, the UN health agency warned in a report...
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Nigeria on Wednesday announced that three years had elapsed since it last recorded a case of polio, a key step towards eradicating the notorious...
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Two-year-old Farid should have been vaccinated against polio, but his family — like many in rural Afghanistan — believed the conspiracy theories and refused...
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More than 25,000 children were rushed to hospitals in northwest Pakistan after rumours spread that some had suffered reactions to a polio vaccine, officials...
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Decades after polio was eradicated from Papua New Guinea, the crippling and sometimes deadly disease has returned, leaving doctors scrambling to revive long-lapsed vaccination...
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Niger has launched a mass polio vaccination campaign targeting more than three million children under five after new cases were detected, an official said...