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 ...

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.

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

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

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.

African health minister have pledged renewed action to end all forms of polio and safeguard the gains of eradication that have seen millions of children across the region saved from the devastation of ...

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

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

As part of ongoing renewed push to eradicate polio, Michael McGovern, Chair of the Rotary International Polio Plus Committee, has urged the Nigerian government to prioritise public health ...

In an era of ever-increasing global health threats from antimicrobial resistance to emerging infectious diseases, it is important for countries to invest in strengthening environmental surveillance ...

Systematic surveillance for enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) in a pediatric network turned up some surprising insights into this virus that jumped into the limelight with a 2014 outbreak tied to acute ...

HYDERABAD: A meeting chaired by Divisional Commissioner Hyderabad, Fayyaz Hussain Abbasi, was held at his office ...