ICMR to expand wastewater surveillance for 10 viruses in 50 cities, aiding in early detection of disease outbreaks.

The Pakistan Polio Eradication Programme therefore executes environmental (sewage) surveillance for the poliovirus across the country. According to the results for June 2025, of the 102 samples ...

Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah described polio as a grave threat to children's health and emphasised that large-scale ...

Thanks to successful vaccination programs, extensive surveillance and outbreak response, Europe has been polio-free since 2002.

The United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, has called on the Kano State Government to declare a State of emergency on polio and routine immunisation following a resurgence of the disease in the ...

Polio is a potentially debilitating disease and no specific therapy is available against the virus. Vaccination is the only effective method of protecting against severe disease caused by poliovirus.

Europe is still polio-free, but that status is not guaranteed, with concerns around immunization rates and containment issues in some vaccine manufacturing facilities.

Namibia was certified polio free since October 2008 and had continued routine and national immunization campaigns to maintain its polio free status. However, the country remains at high risk for ...

"We still have a residual number of people who are not accepting the vaccine," said Hamisu Walla, the regional polio surveillance officer for the World Health Organization.

The Papua New Guinea National Department of Health announced Friday that a polio outbreak has struck there.

Further, she encourages countries to conduct polio surveillance in polio elimination programmes. "Surveillance is important. People must know what they are looking at, for example, identifying it.