[SaneVax: Do the 47,500 new cases of acute flaccid paralysis in India mean they traded polio eradication for a disease with twice the risk of death? Is it coincidence these new cases of AFP correlate closely to the number of oral polio vaccine doses administered?] “Polio drops but leaves a deadly new trail,” by Shonali Ghosal […]
Anti-polio drive starts in frontier regions
From the Newspaper | Peshawar | PESHAWAR, Feb 11: With the help of local elders and ulema, the administration started a three-day anti-polio vaccination drive in the Frontier Region of Peshawar on Saturday. The drive was inaugurated by assistant political agent, FR Peshawar, Naveed Akbar Khan, by administering vaccine to a child at Azam Kili during […]
As govt teams come knocking, schools face dilemma of permitting polio vaccinations
By Rabia Ali Private schools were asked to cooperate with the government teams administering polio vaccinations to students under the age of five years or go to jail. “We were harassed by the polio teams and were forced to let them administer drops to our students,” said the principal of AMI School’s nursery branch, Nasira Faiz. […]
Flip side of India’s polio success story – Country needs to pencil strategy to fight infection triggered by vaccine itself, say experts
The Telegraph Calcutta, India By G.S. MUDUR New Delhi, Jan. 15: India’s health ministry, celebrating a year of freedom from wild polio, now faces a dilemma that public health experts had predicted years ago: the very vaccine it is using to fight polio is causing more polio paralysis than the wild poliovirus. India observed last Thursday as […]
Action ordered against families resisting drive
Excerpt from The Nation (a print publication from Pakistan) MULTAN – The district administration has decided to launch police action against those families that resist vaccination of their children against polio. According to detail, District Coordination Officer (DCO) Zahid Akhtar Zaman has directed the Health Department to lodge report against such families with the police […]
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