According to the polio eradication programme, only 30 cases have been reported since September; expert says virus tends to ...

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan reported fewer than half as many cases of polio in 2025 than the previous year, a sign of progress in ...

Provincial figures indicate that Punjab recorded the highest number of missed children, with about 331,000 not vaccinated ...

Authorities say Pakistan has launched the final nationwide anti-polio vaccination campaign of the year, aiming to protect 45 million children after more than two dozen cases of the potentially paralyz ...

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — For the past decade, Sughra Ayaz has traveled door to door in southeastern Pakistan, pleading with parents to allow children to be vaccinated against polio as part of a global ...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan on Monday began its last nationwide vaccination campaign for the year to protect 45 million children from polio after a surge in new cases hampered efforts to stop the ...

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — For nearly four decades, the World Health Organization and partners have been trying to rid the world of polio, a paralytic disease that has existed since prehistoric times.

Pakistan reports a sharp drop in polio cases in 2025 despite thousands of children missing the last vaccination drive, as ...

Despite repeated nationwide anti-polio drives, Hyderabad has failed to achieve polio-free status in 2025, with more than 12,000 children missing vaccination during the year's final countrywide ...

CORRECTS NAME: Displaced infant Abdel-Rahman Abu El-Jedian, who suffers from polio, sleeps at a makeshift tent camp in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem ...

Pakistan’s final nationwide polio vaccination campaign of 2025 continued for a fourth day, with authorities reporting that nearly 38 million children have been immunised.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The Taliban have suspended polio vaccination campaigns in Afghanistan, the U.N. said Monday. It’s a devastating setback for polio eradication, since the virus is one ...