Indian Olympic athletes appeal to root out polio
August 2nd, 2012 - 9:56 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 2 (IANS) With no new polio case reported in the country for more than a year, Indian Olympic athletes Thursday appealed to parents to get their ... Read more...
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A million Pakistani kids to get anti-polio drops
July 16th, 2012 - 2:24 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, July 16 (IANS) Pakistan will administer anti-polio vaccine to nearly one million children in the militancy-hit tribal regions during a three-day national immunization campaign starting Monday, said officials.Janbaz ... Read more...
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Spread awareness about polio: Minister to Bengal religious leaders
June 16th, 2012 - 12:52 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, June 16 (IANS) Union Minister of State for Tourism Sultan Ahmed has appealed to West Bengal's community leaders to cut across faith lines and come together to raise awareness ... Read more...
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Bengal to take religious leaders’ help for polio vaccination
April 21st, 2012 - 11:38 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, April 21 (IANS) In a bid to make sure that each and every child of the state ias administered polio vaccine, the West Bengal government Saturday said it will ... Read more...
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‘Polio a huge embarrassment for Pakistan’
March 23rd, 2012 - 12:25 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, March 23 (IANS) Pakistan has been "infamous the world over for exporting terrorism" and now there are fears of it exporting the polio virus to other countries, a ... Read more...
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India to support global polio eradication: Azad
February 26th, 2012 - 7:19 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 26 (IANS) After registering a zero-polio period in the last one year, India said Sunday it will extend full support and cooperation to help Pakistan, Afghanistan and ... Read more...
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Indian firm joins Nigeria’s polio battle (With Images)
February 23rd, 2012 - 4:51 pm ICT by IANS
Lagos, Feb 23 (IANS) An Indian vaccine maker will now help fight polio in Nigeria, one of the three countries in the world where the crippling disease is still prevalent.India's ... Read more...
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Over 17 crore kids get polio vaccine
February 19th, 2012 - 8:53 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 19 (IANS) Seventeeen crore children aged under five were immunised Sunday in a natiowide polio vaccination campaign in India, which did not report even a single ... Read more...
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Pakistani province launches polio campaign
January 30th, 2012 - 10:01 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Jan 30 (IANS) Over two million children will be administered anti-polio vaccine drops in Pakistan's Balochistan province, which saw the highest number of polio cases in the world in ... Read more...
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Pakistani daily lauds India for no polio cases in 2011
January 14th, 2012 - 12:01 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Jan 14 (IANS) India must receive "due appreciation" as it has been a year since its last case of polio was reported, said a leading Pakistani daily.An editorial in ... Read more...
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WHO lauds India’s year without polio (Lead)
January 13th, 2012 - 11:31 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 13 (IANS) With a 'zero-polio' record in the last one year, India Friday carried its fight against the crippling disease to hospitals and health care centres across ... Read more...
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WHO commends India’s polio free year
January 13th, 2012 - 9:54 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 13 (IANS) The World Health Organisation has commended India's one year of being a 'polio free nation', calling it a major achievement."India's success is arguably its greatest ... Read more...
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Hopeful yet vigilant India marks a year without polio
January 13th, 2012 - 9:38 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 13 (IANS) With a 'zero-polio' record in the last one year, India Friday carried its fight against the disease to hospitals and health care centres across the ... Read more...
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Health minister Azad hopeful yet vigilant on polio
January 12th, 2012 - 10:48 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 12 (IANS) As India completes a year without registering any polio cases, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad Thursday said the country was "excited" and at the same ... Read more...
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Two held in Pakistan for refusing polio drops
September 21st, 2011 - 12:48 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Sep 21 (IANS) Two people were arrested in Pakistan for refusing to give polio drops to their children.The arrest warrant for another person was issued Tuesday."The parents will ... Read more...
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Polio cases in Pakistan worry global agencies
May 15th, 2011 - 10:48 am ICT by IANS
Islamabad, May 15 (IANS) With 37 polio cases reported so far this year in Pakistan, Unicef and the World Health Organisation (WHO) are a worried lot. The two institutions have ... Read more...
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Another round of pulse polio campaign launched in Delhi
March 26th, 2011 - 5:56 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Mar 26 (ANI): Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit today launched another round of pulse polio campaign here by giving anti-polio drops to number of children in a function organized at ... Read more...
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How battle against polio was won in Uttar Pradesh
January 24th, 2011 - 11:00 am ICT by IANS
By Richa Sharma
Meerut, Jan 24 (IANS) From 26 cases of polio in 2009 to none last year, Meerut district is a mirror of the cheering development taking place in polio-endemic Uttar Pradesh.And ... Read more...
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US varsity offers $1-million scholarships to Indian students
August 18th, 2010 - 7:33 pm ICT by IANS
Bangalore, Aug 18 (IANS) The University of Cincinnati will grant undergraduate scholarships worth $1 million to Indian students from the next academic year, the American university said Wednesday.
"We will provide two ... Read more...
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Now a vaccine to prevent breast cancer
June 1st, 2010 - 11:36 am ICT by IANS
London, June 1 (IANS) Scientists claimed to have developed a vaccine that can save women from developing breast cancer and can also treat those suffering from the disease.
All women over 40 could ... Read more...
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Breast cancer vaccine trials within a year
June 1st, 2010 - 2:11 am ICT by IANS
London, June 1 (IANS) A new vaccine may soon protect women from developing breast cancer, say researchers.
The drug, which goes on trial within a year, can prevent tumour growth and also destroy ... Read more...
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Did end of smallpox vaccination trigger explosive HIV spread?
May 18th, 2010 - 4:15 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, May 18 (IANS) The end of smallpox vaccination in the mid-20th century may have contributed to the rapid spread of HIV, a new study says.
Smallpox immunisation was gradually withdrawn from the ... Read more...
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End of smallpox vaccination ‘led to the explosive spread of HIV’
May 18th, 2010 - 4:07 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, May 18 (ANI): The end of smallpox vaccination in the mid-20th century could be responsible for a loss of protection that lead to the rapid contemporary spread of HIV, according to ... Read more...
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Pratibha Patil launches bivalent polio vaccine in India
January 9th, 2010 - 6:43 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 9 (IANS) President Pratibha Patil Saturday launched a new round of the national polio immunization campaign with a bivalent vaccine that is capable of simultaneously controlling two strains ... Read more...
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Fighting diarrhoea to eradicate polio
September 16th, 2009 - 1:31 pm ICT by IANS
By Nabeel A. Khan
New Delhi, Sep 16 (IANS) It kills nearly 500,000 children every year. But one of the lesser known facts about diarrhoea is that it also makes anti-polio drops ineffective. ... Read more...
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Taliban disrupts polio campaign in Hangu
April 14th, 2009 - 2:12 pm ICT by ANI
Hangu (NWFP), Apr. 14 (ANI): The Taliban has stopped the polio vaccination drive in Hangu region by threatening to kidnap health officials if they go ahead with the campaign."Armed Taliban ... Read more...
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Polio resurging in Africa, says Red Cross
April 8th, 2009 - 4:34 pm ICT by IANS
Geneva, April 8 (DPA) The International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC) warned Wednesday that polio is spreading again in 14 countries across Africa, including in areas where the disease had once ... Read more...
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India signs agreement with World Bank on health project
February 13th, 2009 - 8:07 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Feb 13 (ANI): India has signed a Financing Agreement of National Vector Borne Disease Control and Polio Eradication Support Project with the World Bank, here today.
The agreement is ... Read more...
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$635 million effort to wipe out polio in India, Pakistan
January 22nd, 2009 - 11:25 am ICT by IANS
Washington, Jan 22 (IANS) An international effort spearheaded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has pledged $635 million towards eradicating the crippling polio disease with focus on India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and ... Read more...
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Polio vaccine vials found dumped outside Bihar hospital
December 24th, 2008 - 12:21 pm ICT by IANS
Patna, Dec 24 (IANS) Nearly 100 polio vaccine vials were found dumped outside a district hospital in Bihar, raising questions over the conduct of the immunisation drive to eradicate the crippling disease ... Read more...
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Fear of polio still haunting millions in Bihar
December 22nd, 2008 - 7:28 pm ICT by IANS
Patna, Dec 22 (IANS) The fear of their children catching deadly polio is still haunting millions of parents across Bihar, and they who are striving to ensure their children are administered ... Read more...
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No truth in reports of polio vaccine death: Karnataka
December 22nd, 2008 - 7:01 pm ICT by IANS
Bangalore, Dec 22 (IANS) A day after hundreds of panicky parents thronged hospitals after reports that a child given polio drops had died, the Karnataka government said Monday it was only a ... Read more...
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Poor boycott polio vaccine — over kerosene
November 22nd, 2008 - 3:22 pm ICT by IANS
Patna, Nov 22 (IANS) Parents of over 100 infants in Bihar's Samastipur district have boycotted a polio vaccination drive in protest against the non-supply of subsidised kerosene to them for six months.A ... Read more...
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India to launch injectible polio vaccine
November 12th, 2008 - 7:39 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Nov 12 (IANS) India will soon introduce an injectible polio vaccine (IPV) in the nine troubled districts of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, considered to be the hotbed of polio in ... Read more...
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372 polio cases in India, fresh immunisation round in Delhi
August 30th, 2008 - 8:52 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 30 (IANS) With 372 cases of polio reported this year, the disease continues to spread unabated in India and the Delhi government said it will launch another round of ... Read more...
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