(AP Photo) A health worker, left, administers a polio vaccine to a child at a neighborhood in Peshawar, Pakistan, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad) A health worker, right ...

Pakistan and neighbouring Afghanistan are the only countries where polio is endemic, and militants have for decades targeted vaccination teams and their security escorts. A police officer guarding ...

Photo: AFP Polio is easily preventable with an oral vaccine, but misinformation from some Islamic leaders, falsely claiming the vaccine contains pork or alcohol, has hindered progress. Despite ...

Polio can easily be prevented by the oral administration of a few drops of vaccine, but scores of vaccination workers and their escorts have been killed over the years. In the past, clerics falsely ...

It is an injectable, inactivated polio vaccine that is still used in some countries today. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Dr. Albert Sabin developed a second, oral vaccine, and it was ...

visited various areas of Sariab and 15 children of reluctant parents were administered the polio vaccine after persuasion, according to district administration. Show Full Article Despite repeated ...

Polio is a paralysing disease that has no cure. Multiple doses of the oral polio vaccine and completion of the routine vaccination schedule for all children under the age of five is essential to ...