Polio

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Kenya issues polio alert

AFP Global Edition 290 days ago

Kenya on Wednesday issued a polio alert after a rare case was confirmed in a young girl in a northern region near the border with Sudan, a health official said. Public health director Shahnaaz Shariff announced plans for an emergency vaccination following ...

Kenya toddler is first polio infection in 20 years

AP News 290 days ago

Kenya toddler is first polio infection in 20 years; officials to launch immunization campaign Kenya announced its first polio infection in 20 years on Wednesday, after a 4-year-old girl was diagnosed with the disease along the country's remote border with Sudan. "In ...

India polio survivor stars in Oscar-nominated film

AFP South Asian Edition 291 days ago

=(Graphic+Picture)= Amid all the hoopla over the Oscar nomination sweep by "Slumdog Millionaire," there's a real-life Indian tale of beating the odds that is also vying for the prized golden statuette. A 38-minute US film called "The Final Inch" has been nominated ...

$630 million for new push to eradicate polio

AP News 291 days ago

Bill Gates, Rotary donate more than $630 million to polio eradication effort Bill Gates and other donors are giving more than $630 million to the international effort to eradicate polio, after the disease spiked and spread to seven countries that were previously ...

Ind. man, 72, shaves shaggy eyebrows for charity

AP News 291 days ago

72-year-old Indiana man raises $1,600 for charity by having shaggy eyebrows trimmed A 72-year-old man with eyebrows so long he brushed them each morning raised $1,600 for charity from people who paid to take turns trimming his out-of-control brows. Some of the ...

'Pulse Polio' Program Starts in India

ZUMA Press Inc 292 days ago

Dec 21, 2008 - Shanti Bhavan, India - The kindergarten class at Shanti Bhavan, a residential school outside of Bangalore, receive polio drops,. A special Polio immunization program 'Pulse Polio' was set up by the Indian government on Sunday, offering polio drops ...

WHO renews polio immunisation drive in northern Nigeria

AFP Global Edition 294 days ago

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has decided to involve local chiefs in the fight against polio, which is on the rise in northern Nigeria, officials said Thursday. "We have realised that we would have recorded tremendous success if local chiefs had spearheaded ...

An Indian child is given polio vaccine in one of the mobile centres available in Pazhavanthangal Railway Station in Chennai, India.

ZUMA Press Inc 295 days ago

An Indian child is given polio vaccine in one of the mobile centres available in Pazhavanthangal Railway Station in Chennai, India, 01 February 2009. Five lakh children are being administered in the city to oral polio vaccine marking the second round of ...

Polio Eradication Campaign in Angola

ZUMA Press Inc 299 days ago

Jul 30, 2005 - Cubal, Angola - A mother brings her young son to be vaccinated by volunteers who are conducting a door to door polio eradication campaign using oral vaccinations Copyright 2009 ZUMA Press Inc

APTOPIX Haiti Polio Vaccination

AP News 317 days ago

A health official gives drops of oral polio vaccination to a child at the Mission of Mercy school in the Cite Soleil slum, in Port-au-Prince, Thursday, March 26, 2009. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa) Copyright 2009 AP News

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