polio

Health news

Poliovirus found in sewage in three European countries. What now?

Health authorities say European countries should ramp up their immunisation and disease surveillance efforts.

04/12/2024

Health news

Poland urges polio jabs for kids after finding virus in Warsaw sewage

About 86 per cent of the country's three-year-olds have been vaccinated against polio, shy of the 95 per cent recommended to prevent the spread of the virus.

19/11/2024

Health news

Polio vaccination campaign finishes in Gaza

The WHO said 94 per cent of children who got their first vaccine also received a second dose.

07/11/2024

Gaza

Over 50 children reportedly killed in Gaza in last 48 hours

Over 50 children reportedly killed in Gaza amid Intensified violence, while the vaccination campaign for polio, recently resumed in northern Gaza, is facing disruptions due to the ongoing conflict.

03/11/2024

Health news

Pakistan launches vaccination campaign amid surge in polio cases

Pakistan has recorded 41 polio cases so far this year, and is one of two countries where the disease has never been eradicated.

28/10/2024

Health news

Polio vaccine campaign in Gaza postponed due to 'escalating violence'

The aim of the vaccine campaign in Gaza was to provide more than half a million kids with second doses of a novel oral vaccine.

23/10/2024

Health news

Polio initiative calls for €2 billion more funding to eradicate virus

The call for funding is part of a global effort to eradicate polio by 2029.

18/10/2024

Health news

Second round of emergency Gaza polio vaccination campaign starts

A second round of the polio vaccination campaign in Gaza is beginning to provide second doses to children.

14/10/2024

Gaza

Israeli rocket hits medical convoy in Gaza, killing five crew members

The attack on a US charity-led aid convoy headed to a Gaza hospital came mere hours after another World Food Programme convoy came under repeated Israeli fire.

30/08/2024

Health news

Israel says polio vaccines sent to Gaza amid calls to pause fighting

A case of polio was reported in an unvaccinated 10-month-old baby in Gaza this month.

26/08/2024

Health news

UN calls for humanitarian pause in Gaza to allow polio vaccinations

International groups have expressed their concerned after a first case of polio confirmed and others suspected in Gaza.

19/08/2024

Gaza

Health officials in Gaza report first case of polio in 25 years

Antonio Guterres says Gaza is in "humanitarian freefall" and calls for pause in fighting so aid agencies can deliver 1.6 million doses of the nOPV2 polio vaccine to the strip.

17/08/2024

Health news

Gaza at risk from polio and superbugs, WHO experts warn

Gaza’s lack of clean water and crippled health system are fertile ground for the spread of infections that could become regional or even global threats, health experts said.

07/08/2024

Health news

Paul Alexander, the 'man in the iron lung,' dies aged 78

After contracting polio aged 6, Alexander went on to spend his entire life paralysed from the neck down and living in a cylinder that encased his body.

14/03/2024

Health news

‘We’re so close’ to eradicating polio but challenges remain

Poliomyelitis, an untreatable but preventable disease, is only endemic in two countries globally but many believe it could be eradicated.

24/10/2023

Health news

New €1 billion funding partnership for polio eradication launched

The EU, European Investment Bank (EIB), and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation aim to contribute funding for global polio eradication.

11/10/2023

Eco-Innovation

How are solar panels saving children’s lives in Zimbabwe?

The southern African country has been experiencing long blackouts while battling polio and measles outbreaks.

30/01/2023

Germany

Gates Foundation commits extra €1.23 billion to eradicate polio

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation says it will commit €1.23 billion to the effort to end polio worldwide, at the 2022 World Health Summit in Berlin.

17/10/2022

Health news

Polio vaccines offered to 1m children in first UK outbreak since 1980s

The virus is spreading in London for the first time since the 1980s after it was detected in samples of sewage in the UK capital.

10/08/2022

Culture news

Joni Mitchell returns after twenty years - but why has she been away?

The celebrated singer-songwriter is back on stage, but why has she been away?

26/07/2022