Scientists develop effective, safer and less costly polio vaccine Hina Zahid1 Feb 2020 11:45 AM GMTBethesda, Md. – As the world nears poliovirus eradication, the vaccines themselves have become the greatest threat. In response to global demand for...
Health Ministry postpones Polio National Immunisation Day Hina Zahid28 Jan 2019 3:30 AM GMTNew Delhi: The National Immunisation Day (NID) which was scheduled to be held on February 3 has been postponed to another date as per the recently...
Oral polio vaccine samples found adulterated: Health Minister Medical Dialogues Bureau13 Dec 2018 8:49 AM GMTNew 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...
India stands COMMITTED to Ensure Safety of Vaccines Medical Dialogues Bureau4 Oct 2018 4:45 AM GMTNew Delhi: There have been reports in a section of the print media mentioning that bivalent oral polio vaccine supplied by a particular manufacturer...
Srinagar: 12 detained for spreading rumours of death due to polio savita20 Jan 2016 5:54 AM GMTSrinagar: A day after rumours spread in the Valley that polio vaccination caused death of children, which resulted in worried parents rushing their kid...
India to switch to bivalent polio vaccine Meghna A Singhania17 Jan 2016 7:53 AM GMTNew 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...
Available polio vaccines not optimal for safety: Study savita7 Jan 2016 7:14 AM GMTWashington: While the whole world is striving for polio virus eradication, a recent study has raised concerns about post-eradication manufacturing and ...
Safer polio vaccine strains for post-eradication era developed savita2 Jan 2016 7:01 AM GMTLondon: Researchers have developed new polio vaccine strains that is particularly suitable for a post-eradication era as these strains appear both...
Sanofi launches injectable polio vaccine ShanIPV in India Pooja9 Dec 2015 4:22 AM GMTSanofi Group has announced the launch of its injectable polio vaccine (IPV) ShanIPV to be manufactured in India by its arm Shantha Biotechnics....
WHO, UNICEF support Myanmar's polio vaccination campaign savita1 Dec 2015 5:07 AM GMTThe World Health (WHO) Organisation and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) support Myanmar's Ministry of Health to conduct a polio...
WHO raises concern about wastage of polio vaccine in Ukraine Pooja10 Oct 2015 5:17 AM GMTThe World Health Organisation has raised concern about the fact of millions of doses of polio vaccine likely to be wasted in Ukraine, after a patient...
