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…
Category: Polio
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…
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…
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…
‘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…
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…
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…
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…
