poliovirus

APP Peshawar: A new case of polio has been confirmed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), pushing the province’s infection count to 10 for the year, officials reported Saturday. The latest case involves a 28-month-old boy from Behram Union…

News Desk Islamabad: The National Institute of Health's Regional Anti-Polio Laboratory has confirmed the presence of the poliovirus in environmental samples from 20 districts in Pakistan. The virus was detected in sewage samples from…

APP Islamabad: The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health (NIH) has confirmed the 43rd case of Wild Poliovirus Type-1 (WPV1) in Pakistan. This case was identified in a child from the…

News Desk  Islamabad: Another case of poliovirus has been confirmed in Pakistan, bringing the total number of reported cases to 40 this year. The National Institute of Health (NIH) revealed that a two-and-a-half-year-old child in…

APP Islamabad: The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health (NIH), Islamabad, confirmed a new case of wild poliovirus type-1 (WPV1) in Quetta, Balochistan. The child developed paralysis on…

APP Karachi: Two new polio cases have been reported in Sindh, raising the country’s total count to 26 for the year amidst a concerning surge in the virus. According to media reports, a seven-year-old girl in Karachi East and a…

APP Islamabad: Health officials reported two new polio cases on Tuesday, bringing the total number of polio cases in Pakistan this year to 26. The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health…

APP Peshawar: Another case of polio has been reported in the Kohat district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, raising the total number of cases in the country to 23 this year. The National Institute of Health (NIH) confirmed that a ten-month-old…

APP Islamabad: A first group of children received polio vaccinations in besieged Gaza on Saturday, ahead of the official start of a much-anticipated United Nations-led campaign set to begin Today (Sunday). Children at Nasser Hospital…

News Desk Karachi: On the first day of a special polio vaccination drive in Karachi, 27 percent of parents refused to vaccinate their children, as reported by officials from the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI).  The campaign,…