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Category: Polio

Posted on January 19, 2016June 11, 2016

Pakistan’s polio plan needs global support

After a year of relative success, the polio eradication drive in Pakistan received a setback on Wednesday (January 13) when a blast near a polio vaccination centre in Quetta killed at…

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Posted on January 19, 2016June 11, 2016

IPV vaccine boost to India’s polio fight

After nearly five polio-free years, and with the launch of the inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) injection in the national immunisation programme tomorrow (November 30), India will be pushing for “endgame…

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Posted on January 17, 2016June 28, 2016

Editorial: The continuing polio challenge

Polio has bounced back with a vengeance in Pakistan. Compared with 53 cases reported during the period January to September last year and 54 in 2012, there have been 174…

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Posted on January 16, 2016June 28, 2016

Why oral polio vaccination must for India-bound Pakistanis

With no cases of polio being reported for three consecutive years, India will be declared as polio-free by the WHO on February 11 when random samples tested by the global…

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Posted on January 12, 2016July 20, 2016

‘We are fighting a war against polio without a General’

A 10-month-old baby in Beed district, Maharashtra who was recently diagnosed of polio caused by the vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV) type 2 turns the spotlight on the shortcomings of using a…

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Posted on January 12, 2016July 20, 2016

Bring in injectable polio vaccine

A 10-month-old baby in Beed district, Maharashtra who recently got infected by a vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV) type 2 is yet another reminder that despite India being declared polio free more…

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Posted on January 5, 2016

Measles: two-dose regimen a must

Published in The Hindu on November 5, 2009 India has failed in controlling measles, an infection that afflicts children. According to mathematical modelling, nearly 1,30,000 deaths happen every year. This…

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Posted on December 11, 2015April 26, 2016

A vaccine boost to India’s polio fight

Published in The Hindu on November 29, 2015 After nearly five polio-free years, and with the launch of the inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) injection in the national immunisation programme tomorrow…

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