Ensure oral polio vaccine for children below 5 years of age on January 17: Dr Harsh Vardhan Medical Dialogues Bureau9 Jan 2021 9:00 AM IST"Today, in spite of the fact that virtually all the countries in the world have eradicated polio, two of our neighboring countries still have cases of...
Scientists develop effective, safer and less costly polio vaccine Hina Zahid1 Feb 2020 5:15 PM ISTBethesda, Md. – As the world nears poliovirus eradication, the vaccines themselves have become the greatest threat. In response to global demand for...
Health Minister launches Pulse Polio campaign across Punjab Medical Dialogues Bureau21 Jan 2020 11:26 AM ISTChandigarh: Punjab Health and Family Welfare Minister Balbir Singh Sidhu on Sunday launched the three-day pulse polio campaign at Jagatpura...
Oral polio vaccine samples found adulterated: Health Minister Medical Dialogues Bureau13 Dec 2018 2:19 PM ISTNew Delhi: Two samples of a batch of bivalent oral polio vaccine (bOPV) were found to be adulterated and containing type 2 poliovirus by the Central...
Nadda reviews polio immunisation campaign in Telangana savita thakur thakur25 Jun 2016 12:49 PM ISTNew Delhi : In the wake of the recent polio scare in Telangana, Union Health Minister J P Nadda reviewed the special vaccination campaign being...
India to switch to bivalent polio vaccine Meghna A Singhania17 Jan 2016 1:23 PM ISTNew Delhi, Jan 16 : With India remaining polio free for five years now, the government today said that it plans to switch to bivalent Oral Polio...
Inactivated polio vaccine to end polio Pooja Bhatia Bhatia30 Nov 2015 12:43 PM ISTThe government will be launching the inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) injection to be used alongside the oral polio vaccine as a part of the national...
