Polio Virus
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Africa now free of wild poliovirus, but polio threat remains
World | Aug 26, 2020, 07:46 AM ISTHealth authorities on Tuesday declared the African continent free of the wild poliovirus after decades of effort, though cases of vaccine-derived polio are still sparking outbreaks of the paralyzing disease in more than a dozen countries.
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Syria Polio Outbreak: Steps being taken to eradicate the disease globally, WHO
World | Jun 09, 2017, 05:00 PM IST“On May 29, a World Health Organization spokeswoman told media that there had been 50 cases of acute flaccid paralysis in the governorate since the start of 2017, but no stool samples had yet tested positive for polio has been largely destroyed”.
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Two new polio cases detected in Pakistan
World | Aug 02, 2014, 02:03 PM ISTIslamabad: Two new polio cases has been detected in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), a media report said on Saturday.Health officials said that one-year-old Salma Bibi from Peshawar's Nasab Colony
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WHO issues travel restriction on Pakistan due to polio
World | May 06, 2014, 11:40 AM ISTNew Delhi: The World Health Organization on Monday issued an international alert over the resurgence of polio — a disease over which India has just won a hard-fought battle. The WHO alert was accompanied by