Polio Day on March 3, 2024: 5 benefits of polio vaccine for your kid
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Polio Day on March 3, 2024: 5 benefits of polio vaccine for your kid

Hindustan Times  

Polio Day on March 3, 2024: A nationwide Pulse Polio Immunization drive to administer polio vaccine to children below the age of 5 will be conducted on March 3, Sunday across the country in all districts on Polio Day. The preparation for the polio immunization drive is on in full swings and health authorities in several states from Tamil Nadu, Gurgaon, Madhya Pradesh, to Nagaland have set up thousands of polio booths and have been training volunteers for the administration of polio vaccine to children. Polio Day on March 3, 2024: Polio, short for poliomyelitis, is a highly contagious viral infection that primarily affects the nervous system. {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} India had launched Pulse Polio immunization programme with Universal Immunization Program aiming at 100% coverage in the year 1995 following the Global Polio Eradication Initiative of the World Health Organization.

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World Immunization Day 2024: Date, history, significance and theme of this day
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World Immunization Day 2024: Date, history, significance and theme of this day

India TV News  

World Immunization Day, observed annually on November 10th, serves as a powerful reminder of the critical role vaccination plays in safeguarding public health. The history of World Immunization day World Immunization Day was first established by the World Health Organization in 2012 as part of the Global Vaccine Safety Initiative. World Immunization Day 2024: Focus on key challenges and solutions …

National Vaccination Day 2024: Date, theme, history, significance and more
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National Vaccination Day 2024: Date, theme, history, significance and more

India TV News  

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Polio Day 2024: 5 benefits of polio vaccine for every child
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Polio Day 2024: 5 benefits of polio vaccine for every child

India TV News  

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Polio Day on March 3, 2024: 5 benefits of polio vaccine for your kid
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Polio Day on March 3, 2024: 5 benefits of polio vaccine for your kid

Hindustan Times  

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The case for India switching from the oral to the inactivated polio vaccine
1 year, 5 months ago

The case for India switching from the oral to the inactivated polio vaccine

The Hindu  

This article is a response to ‘The case for the oral polio vaccine in the world’s quest for eradication’, July 21, 2023, by Vipin M. Vashishtha and Puneet Kumar. Also, India has remained polio-free since January 2011 even as wild poliovirus and VDPV cases have been reported in Pakistan and Afghanistan, thanks to high polio vaccine coverage here. The need …

Polio: Leading virologist offers a beginner’s guide to the different viruses and vaccines
1 year, 8 months ago

Polio: Leading virologist offers a beginner’s guide to the different viruses and vaccines

The Hindu  

On 17 March 2023, the World Health Organization announced that health officials in Burundi and Democratic Republic of Congo had detected cases of vaccine-derived poliovirus. Global efforts since 1988, using oral polio vaccine to immunise children, have reduced wild poliovirus cases by 99.9%. The use of the oral polio vaccine containing attenuated or weakened virus, has brought the wild poliovirus …

National Vaccination Day 2023: History, significance, theme
1 year, 9 months ago

National Vaccination Day 2023: History, significance, theme

Hindustan Times  

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National Vaccination Day 2023: History, significance and more
1 year, 9 months ago

National Vaccination Day 2023: History, significance and more

India TV News  

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Explained | Is there a need for an extra dose of polio vaccine?
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Explained | Is there a need for an extra dose of polio vaccine?

The Hindu  

The story so far: The West Bengal government announced that it was introducing an additional dose of injectable polio vaccine as part of the Universal Immunisation Programme for children. An additional dose of inactivated poliovirus at nine months will protect against any polio thereafter — Vaccine Associated Paralytic Polio or Vaccine Derived Polioviruses, explains T. Jacob John, noted virologist and …

Explained | New York declares polio emergency: should India be worried?
2 years, 2 months ago

Explained | New York declares polio emergency: should India be worried?

The Hindu  

The story so far: Earlier in September, New York declared a State disaster emergency after poliovirus was discovered in wastewater samples from three counties. In India, vaccine-derived poliovirus was detected in the environmental surveillance of sewage samples from Kolkata this year, although the Health Ministry said that such an incident can occur in any country where oral polio vaccines are …

Biggest polio threat in years sparks alarms from New York to California
2 years, 4 months ago

Biggest polio threat in years sparks alarms from New York to California

LA Times  

In this July 18, 1962, photo, a girl in Atlanta swallows a lump of sugar coated with a dose of polio vaccine. Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said there’s discussion about tracking polio in wastewater, especially in areas with low vaccination rates. “If you’re an unvaccinated or incompletely vaccinated adult, please choose now to get the vaccine,” …

‘Entirely preventable’: Polio likely spreading in New York City
2 years, 4 months ago

‘Entirely preventable’: Polio likely spreading in New York City

Al Jazeera  

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Worried About Polio? Here's What Experts Want You To Know.
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Worried About Polio? Here's What Experts Want You To Know.

Huff Post  

ROGER HARRIS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY via Getty Images For the first time in nearly a decade, vaccine-derived polio was detected in the United States. “The big lesson, with monkeypox and polio now: What happens somewhere else in the world, it doesn’t stay there,” said Dr. Scott Roberts, the associate medical director of Infection Prevention at Yale New Haven Hospital. “It wasn’t …

9 million children to be vaccinated against polio in Africa
2 years, 9 months ago

9 million children to be vaccinated against polio in Africa

LA Times  

An urgent campaign to vaccinate more than 9 million children in Africa against polio is underway. UNICEF, the World Health Organization and other partners of the Global Polio Eradication Initia- tive are supporting governments with the vaccination drive after it was confirmed in February that a 3-year-old girl was paralyzed by wild polio virus in Lilongwe. We are working with …

We cannot afford to give up our fight against polio now
3 years, 6 months ago

We cannot afford to give up our fight against polio now

Al Jazeera  

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National Vaccination Day 2021: Importance and quotes by some famous people
3 years, 9 months ago

National Vaccination Day 2021: Importance and quotes by some famous people

India Today  

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Nearly 900k children under 5 yrs Vaccinated against polio
3 years, 10 months ago

Nearly 900k children under 5 yrs Vaccinated against polio

Hindustan Times  

India on Sunday immunised close to 900,000 children under 5 years of age against Polio, shows provisional data released by the Union ministry of health and family welfare. President Ram Nath Kovind launched the National Polio Immunisation Day for 2021 by administering polio drops to children less than five years at Rashtrapati Bhawan on Saturday. The country, however, continues to …

89 lakh kids below 5 years given polio drops across India on 'Polio Ravivar’: Health ministry
3 years, 10 months ago

89 lakh kids below 5 years given polio drops across India on 'Polio Ravivar’: Health ministry

India TV News  

Around 89 lakh children under five years of age, as per provisional data, were given polio drops across the country on Sunday on the occasion of Polio National Immunization Day, also known as 'Polio Ravivar’, the Union health ministry said. Speaking at a function on the eve of the National Immunization Day, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan had said, “Maintaining …

Pulse Polio Programme 2021 Begins Today: Know About Your State's Plan Here
3 years, 10 months ago

Pulse Polio Programme 2021 Begins Today: Know About Your State's Plan Here

News 18  

The Polio National Immunisation Day, which is also popularly known as ‘Polio Ravivar’, is being observed on Sunday across the country. President Ram Nath Kovind had a day ago launched the Pulse Polio Programme 2021 by administering polio drops to children below five years of age at Rashtrapati Bhawan in Delhi. Sudhakar said the COVID-19 vaccination drive would be temporarily …

Three-Day Polio Vaccination Drive Starts From Today, Covid 19 Precautions To Be Followed Strictly
3 years, 10 months ago

Three-Day Polio Vaccination Drive Starts From Today, Covid 19 Precautions To Be Followed Strictly

ABP News  

India will kickstart the 3-day long Pulse polio immunization campaign from Sunday, 31st January. The countrywide immunisation programme was earlier scheduled to start from 17 January, however, it was postponed due to the COVID-19 vaccination drive which started on 16 January. "With the countrywide Covid-19 vaccination drive scheduled to be rolled out on 16 January, the MoHFW in consultation with …

National Polio Immunisation Drive to Begin from January 31, Here's All You Need to Know
3 years, 10 months ago

National Polio Immunisation Drive to Begin from January 31, Here's All You Need to Know

News 18  

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Centre defers National Polio Immunisation programme until further notice, cites 'unforeseen activities'
3 years, 11 months ago

Centre defers National Polio Immunisation programme until further notice, cites 'unforeseen activities'

Firstpost  

New Delhi: The National Polio immunisation programme, as part of which children in the age group of 0-5 years are administered polio drops, has been deferred “till further notice” by the Centre citing “unforeseen activities”. The National Immunisation Day, commonly known as Pulse Polio Immunisation programme, was scheduled for January 17 across India. The Union Health Ministry has communicated the …

World Polio Day 2020: Everything You Need to Know About the Day and Its Importance
4 years, 1 month ago

World Polio Day 2020: Everything You Need to Know About the Day and Its Importance

News 18  

October 24 is also known as the World Polio Day, which is marked to highlight the global efforts toward a polio-free world. According to the World Health Organisation, polio cases have decreased by over 99% since 1988, from an estimated 350,000 cases to 22 reported cases in 2017. World Polio Day celebrates this progress and the people, volunteers, and local …

World Polio Day 2020: History, theme and all you need to know
4 years, 1 month ago

World Polio Day 2020: History, theme and all you need to know

India Today  

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World Polio Day 2020: Everything You Need to Know About Polio
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World Polio Day 2020: Everything You Need to Know About Polio

News 18  

World Polio Day is observed every year on 24 October to commemorate the birth of Jonas Salk, the American virologist who helped create the world’s first safe and effective polio vaccine. Salk’s vaccine was invented in 1955 but it was with the establishment of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative in 1988 by the World Health Organization, Rotary International and others …

Q&A: ‘We can eradicate polio from the world’
4 years, 2 months ago

Q&A: ‘We can eradicate polio from the world’

Al Jazeera  

Nigerian doctor Tunji Funsho talks to Al Jazeera about immunisation efforts in Africa, which was declared wild polio-free this year. Last month, Dr Tunji Funsho, a cardiologist based in Lagos, Nigeria, was named one of TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people of the year for his work in eradicating wild polio in Africa. Al Jazeera spoke to Funsho, chair of …

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