Polio Endemic

The developments are leading experts to fear that polio, once one of the most feared diseases in America but now endemic to just a couple of developing countries, may wreak devastation stateside again.

When Uttar Pradesh was still polio endemic, I worked on the polio programme in the state. I was there when the last reported case in India occurred in January 2011, and an year later when we celebrated one year of polio-free India. Now that I am working on TB and lung disease with a nation-wide programme, I find there are similarities in polio and ...

Nigeria today marked one year since its last case of polio, raising hopes it will soon be taken off the list of endemic countries as the first step to being declared free of the disease.

The number of polio cases recorded in Pakistan has leapt to its highest level in 14 years after attacks on immunisation teams led to a surge in incidences of the disease, health authorities said.

Pakistan on Monday launched a fresh drive to vaccinate more than 700,000 children in its restive tribal belt against polio, but officials said nearly 300,000 others would miss out because of threats from militants.

It remains endemic in three countries—Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria—after India in January became the latest country to become polio-free, after going a full year without registering a new case.

India, which has been polio-free for over a year now, was today taken off the list of polio endemic countries by the World Health Organization (WHO)

India has reason to smile on the polio front, especially on January 13. Not only will it achieve a big milestone of no new case for a year, there are also indications that the World Health Organisation (WHO) will remove it from its list of polio endemic countries by February.

The developments are leading experts to fear that polio, once one of the most feared diseases in America but now endemic to just a couple of developing countries, may wreak devastation stateside again.

When Uttar Pradesh was still polio endemic, I worked on the polio programme in the state. I was there when the last reported case in India occurred in January 2011, and an year later when we celebrated one year of polio-free India. Now that I am working on TB and lung disease with a nation-wide programme, I find there are similarities in polio and ...

Nigeria today marked one year since its last case of polio, raising hopes it will soon be taken off the list of endemic countries as the first step to being declared free of the disease.

The number of polio cases recorded in Pakistan has leapt to its highest level in 14 years after attacks on immunisation teams led to a surge in incidences of the disease, health authorities said.

Pakistan on Monday launched a fresh drive to vaccinate more than 700,000 children in its restive tribal belt against polio, but officials said nearly 300,000 others would miss out because of threats from militants.

It remains endemic in three countries—Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria—after India in January became the latest country to become polio-free, after going a full year without registering a new case.

India, which has been polio-free for over a year now, was today taken off the list of polio endemic countries by the World Health Organization (WHO)

India has reason to smile on the polio front, especially on January 13. Not only will it achieve a big milestone of no new case for a year, there are also indications that the World Health Organisation (WHO) will remove it from its list of polio endemic countries by February.