President launches Pulse Polio Programme 2017 savita thakur thakur30 Jan 2017 11:45 AM ISTThe President of India Shri Pranab Mukherjee launched the Pulse Polio programme for 2017 by administering polio drops to children less than five years...
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...
South-East Asia continues to be polio free: WHO savita thakur thakur20 Jun 2016 4:52 PM ISTNew Delhi: Days after a suspected polio case was detected in India, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said no child in the South-East Asia...
Special polio immunisation drive for Hyderabad, Rangareddy in Telangana savita thakur thakur16 Jun 2016 5:10 PM ISTNew Delhi: Â The Health Ministry on Wednesday said that a special immunisation drive needs to be taken up in Hyderabad and Rangareddy districts...
Indian Academy of Pediatrics hits world record with 1 million registrations on Immunize IAP savita thakur thakur29 April 2016 5:21 PM ISTMumbai: Indian Academy Of Pediatrics, (IAP) has achieved major milestone with its 2014 launched IAP Immunize Program. With over 1 million...
Pakistan, Afghanistan reports 2016's first polio cases savita thakur thakur7 Feb 2016 9:00 AM ISTISLAMABAD:Â Pakistan and Afghanistan have reported the first cases of polio for the year 2016, a media report said.In Pakistan, the case was confirmed...
Srinagar: 12 detained for spreading rumours of death due to polio savita thakur thakur20 Jan 2016 11:24 AM ISTSrinagar: A day after rumours spread in the Valley that polio vaccination caused death of children, which resulted in worried parents rushing their...
Srinagar: Rumours about children's deaths due to polio drops spreads panic savita thakur thakur18 Jan 2016 10:54 AM ISTSrinagar: Panic and fear gripped the Kashmir Valley on Sunday after rumours spread that some children had died after being given polio drops in...
India acting against spread of polio across borders savita thakur thakur18 Jan 2016 8:04 AM ISTNew Delhi:The government is conducting polio vaccination at India's international borders to counteract the possible spread of the virus by foreign...
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...
Available polio vaccines not optimal for safety: Study savita thakur thakur7 Jan 2016 12:44 PM ISTWashington: 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 savita thakur thakur2 Jan 2016 12:31 PM ISTLondon: Researchers have developed new polio vaccine strains that is particularly suitable for a post-eradication era as these strains appear both...
