Hooghly: At least 114 children were hospitalised in Hooghly district after they were mistakenly given Hepatitis B vaccine orally instead of pulse polio drops. Six persons were suspended for the the l

Chennai: K Jennitha Anto of Tiruchy won a gold medal at the International Physically Disabled Chess Association (IPCA) tournament in the Czech Republic recently. She is planning to come to Chennai in

It is almost two years now since the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared India off the list of polio endemic countries.

However, according to the National Polio Surveillance Project data of the

India’s lessons that finally led to eradicating crippling polio reached Nigeria after it sought India’s expertise recently in combating the virus.

While India was taken off polio endemic list this y

What’s in a gutter? There is a lot in a sewage that could provide vital clues to crippling diseases like polio, particularly for a country like India, which has just successfully controlled this major

In further evidence that confirms India’s fear of importing polio virus from neighbouring countries, a recent study has revealed that a major chunk of children below three years in Pakistan and Afghan

A powerful Pakistani Taliban faction has said it will not allow an anti-polio campaign to be conducted in its stronghold of North Waziristan tribal region as long as US drone strikes continue in the a

Less than four months ago the world was cheered to learn that India had gone a full year with no new cases of polio - a landmark that left only Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria on the World Health Or

A group of scientists from the city now plans to develop a virus that is partly alive and partly dead in an attempt to wipe polio off the country’s map. The city-based Ella Foundation, which bagged a

The residents of 15 villages have boycotted the polio vaccination to protest alleged lack of proper nutrition and other facilities to the children by the state-run Anganwadi Centres in Munger district