World Health Organization reports 64 polio infections this year: 41 in Pakistan and 23 in Afghanistan, up from six each in ...

According to the WHO’s latest report, the new polio sample was identified in Lashkargah, the capital of Helmand province.

Oct. 24 marked the beginning of Rotary International’s End Polio Now campaign. Oct. 24 is the birthday of Dr. Jonas Salk, the scientist who spearheaded the development of the first polio vaccine. In ...

Pakistan and Afghanistan are the only two countries in the world where the spread of polio has never been stopped. It is one of the world’s most infectious diseases, so it continues to spread ...

Bill Gates is visiting Pakistan for the first time to attend the meeting of National Task Force for Polio Eradication on the special invitation of Prime Minister Imran Khan. Imran Khan said ...

The Afghan caretaker government's Ministry of Public Health on Monday announced a three-day vaccination campaign aimed at ...

Pakistani officials say militants attacked a health center used in an ongoing anti-polio campaign in the country's northwest, ...

Nine people were killed, including five children, in a bombing on Friday that targeted a southwest Pakistan polio drive, ...

Militant attacks and suspicion stemming from misinformation are hampering Pakistan's battle to eradicate polio, but teams of ...

The Ministry of Public Health of Afghanistan has announced the launch of the fourth round of a polio vaccination campaign in collaboration with international agencies across 16 provinces.

Seventy-six districts were affected in all, the program said. Pakistan and Afghanistan are the only countries where polio ...

The campaign aims to protect 45 million children after a surge in new cases in one of two countries where it was never ...