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Posted on January 11, 2020January 11, 2020

Polio continues to remain a public health emergency

With the continued risk of international spread, WHO has announced that polio will remain a public health emergency for three more months. Polio was declared as public health emergency of…

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Posted on September 20, 2019September 21, 2019

Nigeria on the brink of becoming polio-free

On August 21 this year, Nigeria crossed an important milestone in the eradication of polio when it successfully completed three successive years without a single case of wild poliovirus. The…

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Posted on May 1, 2017May 1, 2017

Number of wild poliovirus cases drop in Pakistan, Afghanistan

In the last six months, there have been only eight wild-type poliovirus (type 1 and type 3) cases reported in Afghanistan and Pakistan, down from 32 cases during the same…

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Posted on January 17, 2016February 3, 2019

Editorial: Another Ebola battle won

On January 18, the World Health Organization and the Malian government declared Mali free of the Ebola virus disease. Mali is the third country after Nigeria and Senegal to become…

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Posted on January 17, 2016June 28, 2016

Preterm births and pneumonia kill most children under five years in India

  Of the 6.3 million deaths in children under the age of five years, nearly 44 per cent of deaths during 2000-2013 occurred during the neonatal period (0-27 days after…

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Posted on January 17, 2016June 28, 2016

Editorial: Lessons to be learnt

  Nearly nine months after the Ebola virus first struck in Guinea, grim statistics reveal that in the four West African countries of Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria, the…

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Posted on January 17, 2016June 28, 2016

Editorial: Keeping Ebola in check

  After the H1N1 influenza (swine flu) in 2009 and polio in May 2014, the WHO has now declared the Ebola (Ebola virus disease) outbreak in West Africa as an…

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