Polio in Medical News

Eliminating polio requires global, coordinated effort -- Health Affairs article highlights risks, rewards of eradication

Bethesda, MD -- Eliminating polio everywhere will require global cooperation on several fronts, including lowering the cost for poor countries to vaccinate with inactivated polio vaccine (IPV), says a leading global health researcher in the July/August Health Affairs thematic issue on global hea...

Oscar Nominated Films Raise Polio Awareness

The Final Inch and Slumdog Millionaire show the challenges facing the polio eradication initiative EVANSTON, Ill., Feb. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Astute Oscar-watchers are getting a short course in polio eradication this year, thanks to two nominated films that together...

Global Health Community Commits Over $630 Million in Aggressive Push for Polio Eradication

Rotary International, Gates Foundation, United Kingdom, and Germany pledge critically needed funds and urge donor and endemic country governments to help end crippling childhood disease SAN DIEGO, Jan. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Rotary International, the Bill & Melinda Ga...

Rotary Marks Progress in Drive to Eradicate Polio

Despite economic challenges, donations exceed expectations BIRMINGHAM, England, June 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In the final push to rid the world of a crippling and potentially fatal disease, Rotary International today announced that it has raised US$90.7 million toward its US$200 Million...

Rotary International and Gates Foundation Together Commit $200 Million to Eradicate Polio

EVANSTON, Ill., Nov. 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Rotary International today announced a partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that will inject a much-needed US$200 million into the global campaign to eradicate polio, a crippling and sometimes fatal disease that still pa...

Now a Polio Scare for Air Travellers

A 22-year-old student from Pakistan has been diagnosed with the first case of polio in Australia in 20 years and remains quarantined in a Melbourne hospital . He is a student student living in Melbourne, said the Australian government's Chief Medical Officer John Horvath. The young man had flo...

Afghanistan Hopes to Eradicate Polio in Two Years

Afghanistan has set itself a target to eradicate the deadly poliomyelitis virus within two years with the support of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) member states, Afghan Health Minister Muhammed Amin Fatimi said here Friday. About 7.4 million children in Afghanistan needed to ...

India Records Substantial Decline in Polio Cases

New Delhi, India has made substantial progress in curbing the spread of polio with just 82 cases reported in the first half of this year compared to 676 last year, says WHO. Of the 82 polio cases till June 25, over 50 cases were from Uttar Pradesh and 17 from Bihar, it says. 'The...

Chhattisgarh to Launch Polio Campaign for Laborers Kids

The Chhattisgarh government will launch a three-day polio immunization drive from May 20 with a special focus on the children of laborers to help the state get rid of polio disease completely. "In a bid to make Chhattisgarh polio disease free, the government will immunize kids across the s...

Health Ministers Meeting on Polio Eradication Today

Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Anbumani Ramadoss will preside over a meeting of ten State health ministers today, which will review the polio eradication process. The meeting has been convened in the wake of reports that the incidence of polio has exacerbated in the last two yea...

Every Child Needs to Be Vaccinated to Lead India into a Polio Free Future - Ramadoss

Speaking at the meeting of Health Ministers of polio affected States organized today to review the status of polio eradication efforts, the Minister for Health & Family Welfare, Dr. Anbumani Ramadoss said that it is critical to sustain the high level of immunity in all polio-affected States by vac...

Eradicating Polio a Better Option Than Control of the Disease: Study

In a new study, researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) analyzed the costs and health outcomes of control and eradication options. They found that the// relatively high short-term costs of global polio eradication will ultimately be much lower than the long-term financial and hu...

Bangladesh Wages a War Against Polio – 22 Million Children to Receive Vaccinatio

Dhaka - Bangladesh is on a massive vaccination drive. Nearly 22 million children under the age of five are slotted to take up the vaccination// that will protect them against one of life’s most crippling diseases- Polio. UNICEF, the World Health Organization (WHO), Rotary International and th...

Seven Polio Cases Detected in Bihar

Patna: The battle against polio is far from over in Bihar with seven new cases detected this year - an alarming jump in the infectious disease// in a state that has vowed to eradicate it by 2007-end. 'It is sad to admit that seven new polio cases surfaced in the state till the first week of...

Nigerian Programme Increases Polio Immunisation

An initiative to increase polio vaccination in Nigeria has been a success, but continued commitment from the government is needed// to help eradicate the virus from northern states, say officials. The Immunization Plus Days (IPDs) initiative was launched in May 2006 by the National Programme ...

Leading Polio Activist Doctor in Pakistan Killed

Friday's incident in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Area (FARA) was the second in a week. Tribals view with suspicion and resent the immunization //drive carried out by the government and NGOs. The official, Abdul Ghani Khan, chief surgeon at the main government hospital in Bajur, ...

Billions of Dollars Saved in U.S. By Polio Vaccination

A new study by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) finds that polio vaccination in the United States //has resulted in a net savings of over $180 billion, even without including the large, intangible benefits associated with avoided fear and suffering. This first study to retr...

Migration is the Cause for Fresh Polio Cases in the Capital: Sheila Dikshit

New Delhi: Blaming the resurfacing of polio cases in the Indian capital to influx of affected children from neighbouring states, //Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit Saturday said that around 2.7 million kids would be administered immunisation drops as part of the Pulse Polio programme. "Delh...

Fresh Polio Case Reported in Jammu

In a worrying development, Jammu and Kashmir has reported its first case of polio after remaining free of the crippling disease for two years even as 14 cases were// detected across India in December-end. With the new cases, the number of children afflicted with the disease touched 624 in 200...

Battle Against Polio Far from Over in Bihar

Patna: The battle against polio is far from over in Bihar, which recorded 51 new cases in 2006.// "The situation is not good. New polio cases surfaced in the state even though millions were spent on a series of immunization drives," said a health official. Unofficial sources put the fig...

IMA Oppose Introduction of Polio Injections

The Indian Medical Association (IMA) will oppose the government's plan to replace pulse polio immunisation drops with injections.// "The IMA will oppose the move to administer injections instead of drops for polio pulse immunisation," IMA's outgoing national president Sanjeev Malik told IANS h...

Increase in Polio Cases

There was decline in number of polio cases from 225 in 2003 to 66 in 2005. However there is a spurt of polio cases in western Uttar Pradesh in 2006, which has further spread not// only to other parts of Uttar Pradesh and but also to States like Haryana, Punjab,Chandigarh, Madhya Pradesh and Maharas...

Oral Polio Vaccine Necessary for Haj Pilgrims

The Ministry of Health of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have taken a decision that all Haj Pilgrims from Afghanistan, India and Pakistan regardless //of age and vaccination status should receive at least one dose of Oral Polio Vaccine prior to departure for Saudi Arabia. This decision was conveyed to...

Global Polio Eradication: A Campaign to Vaccinate Every Child on the Planet

To most Americans, polio is a disease from the past, a successful health campaign to be glorified in the history books.// But around the globe it’s a different story. The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) is arguably the greatest-ever act in the name of the public good. It has taken 1...

Misled Public Stay Away from Polio Immunisation Drive

Already grappling with the oft-impressed canard that the polio vaccine leads to impotency, Uttar Pradesh health officials are now trying hard to dissuade people from// believing an American report claiming that the vaccine could even lead to cancer. And once again those falling easy prey to i...

Madhya Pradesh battles polio with yet another drive

Madhya Pradesh is gearing up for yet another anti-polio drive Sunday even as new polio cases - three in a span of six months// - have been detected. During the drive, pulse polio drops would be administered to nearly 10 million children of up to five years of age, according to health official...

WHO Makes No Bones about Global Polio Eradication

Geneva: Polio has indeed been a major handicap to world health and WHO knows it better! The World Health Organization has communicated// its abiding vision of seeing a world free of polio in a span of one to two years. The vision which carried a deadline of 2005 faced a gap in fructification,...

New polio cases detected in Bihar

The battle against polio is far from over in Bihar with the detection of new cases in those districts that are not covered in the June-July immunisation drive this year//. Eight districts of Magadh and Patna divisions were not covered under the drive.Two new polio cases were detected in Jehana...

Vaccine Quality 'blamed' for Polio Menace in UP

Uttar Pradesh Family Welfare Minister Ahmad Hasan Friday said polio vaccines have proved ineffective in the state in tackling the disease among children.// "We have grave suspicion about the quality of the vaccine, otherwise there is no reason why it should prove ineffective in so many cases....

Fresh Polio Cases Reported from Chandigarh, Haryana

Chandigarh has reported a case of polio, described by health officials as the first such case that has come to light in the union territory in the last four years.// Adjoining Haryana too has reported three polio cases - two in Sonepat district and one in Faridabad. One polio case was report...

Government has Set up a Special Committee to Curb Polio Cases

The Indian government has set up a special committee to check cases of polio that have more than doubled since 2005.// Till the first week of August the country reported 155 cases, as against 66 last year. Most cases are from Uttar Pradesh, the country's most populous state. "The committ...

Survivors of Childhood Polio Do Well Decades Later As They Age

Mayo Clinic researchers have found that years after experiencing childhood polio, most survivors do not experience declines greater than expected in their elderly// counterparts, but rather experience only modest increased weakness, which may be commensurate with normal aging. “Other research...

Japan's Support for Polio Eradication in India

The government of Japan has agreed to provide a grant assistance of Rs.190 million (456 million yen) for the intensified pulse polio immunisation (IIPI) campaign// in India this year, parliament was informed Wednesday. Answering a question, Health and Family Welfare Minister Anbumani Ramadoss...

India to Spend Rs.10 bn on Polio Eradication Strategies

India Thursday approved Rs.10.39 billion for implementing polio eradication strategies during 2006-07 besides Rs.200 million for corrective surgery and rehabilitation of polio victims. // "The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved funds of Rs.10.39 billion for implementing...

Campaigners and Health Officials Fight Against Polio in Namibia

In Namibia people are affected by polio and as of now 15 people have died. Hence the government plans to conduct a three-day mass vaccination campaign to fight polio. // This campaign would cost 395 million Namibian dollars, said Kalumbi Shangula, permanent secretary in the health ministry. On the ...

Two-year old Girl With Polio Detected in UP

One more polio case has surfaced in Uttar Pradesh with the World Health Organisation's (WHO) surveillance team detecting a two-year-old girl affected with polio virus in the district //. WHO's Survillence Medical Officer Salman Khan today said that a two-year-old girl from Shahpur Tahar Khera...

Immunisation Drive After Case With Polio Symptoms

Health authorities have launched a 'ring immunisation' drive here after reports of a 5-year-old migrant boy suffering from acute flaccid paralysis (AFP), one of the symptoms of polio. // The symptoms were detected in Vishal Sharma in Gopalganj district of Bihar but the ring immunisation mop-u...

Dreadful Polio Outbreak In Namibia – Need Immunisation Campaign

Namibia’s health ministry reports seven died of polio attack. Since last 10 years this counted //to the first case where the polio virus 1 of Wild Type was been proved to be responsible – preliminary report from a lab in South Africa reveals. Dr Kalumbi Shangula - permanent secretary sa...

Centre Concerned over Spurt in Polio Cases

New Delhi, June 4. The Centre is concerned over the recent spurt in polio cases with as many as 34 cases reported mainly from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar //till May this year and feels the two states should take the blame for 'failure' to tackle the disease. While UP accounted for 21 cases, 12 ca...

Administering Polio No Mean Task In U P

Opposition to pulse polio drive in this industrial city, thanks to lack of awareness and rumour mongering, was giving a hard time to Uttar Pradesh health department staff who had to face the ire of ignorant villagers. // The health department staff who went door-to-door to administer polio on...