In the global war against polio, one of the world’s most dangerous hotspots tests the limits of vaccination campaigns amid ...

Pakistan efforts to eliminate polio have suffered another blow after a northern enclave reported its first case in seven ...

In another notification, the government paved way for opening of offices of civil defence corps in all districts of the state ...

Decades of global eradication efforts have drastically reduced polio cases worldwide, with the virus now only endemic in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Pakistan has not reported a single case of poliovirus since February 10 as a result of the dedicated nationwide anti-polio drives, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif was told in a meeting on Thursday.

Pakistan's Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication has detected Wild Poliovirus Type 1 in sewage samples from 18 districts, including Islamabad and major cities in all four provinces.

Governance failure is a corollary of a long-standing political crisis. Every new government ... The up and down trajectory of polio cases in Pakistan reflects our ever-unstable politics.

Health workers vaccinate a 2-year-old child during a polio vaccination campaign in January 2015 in a rural area of Tehsil Fateh Jang, Punjab in Pakistan. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/ CDC Global ...