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Topic: Polio

If you’re travelling to these 17 countries, you could need a polio vaccine

With polio making a comeback in nations such as Myanmar and China, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare is working on issuing advisories.

Tarek Fatah got it wrong. Pakistani woman did not refuse polio drops for her children

The video that Tarek Fatah shared on Twitter is actually from a Pakistani movie, Load Wedding, which was released on 22 August 2018.

Two out of three polio virus strains eradicated worldwide, says WHO

Only one polio virus strain now persists in world, but the battle against the disease is far from over.

Why Pakistan has been unable to immunise its population against polio

Pakistan saw 69 new cases of polio until September. It is one of the 3 remaining nations, including Afghanistan and Nigeria, where polio is still endemic.

Imran Khan is done being the PM of Pakistan. He now wants to worry about India all the time

People may die of dengue or lose jobs and slip into poverty because Pakistan’s economy is sinking. But Imran Khan must not lose sight of India.

India doesn’t have polio vaccine for the next round of immunisation

Govt has postponed indefinitely the next polio immunisation, on 3 February, as India is facing acute shortage of both kinds of vaccines — OPV and IPV.

Polio scare: Tainted firm asks drug sleuths to re-test samples detected with dead strain 

Bio-Med is accused of releasing polio vaccines contaminated with the Type-2 virus administered to 30 lakh children.

The detailed story of how India won the battle against poliovirus

On World Polio Day, excerpts from book, ‘Polio: The Odyssey of Eradication’ by Thomas Abraham.

Indian vaccine exports take ill as they are not immune to Chinese competition bug

Indian vaccine exports have been falling steadily since 2015-16 even as the global market has been expanding under the threat of new pandemics.

On Camera

Virat, Anushka, Bumrah selling sarias & cement, dentists, vets, Bihar walls painted in ‘rurbanisation’

Over generations, Bihar’s bane has been its utter lack of urbanisation. But now, even Bihar is urbanising. Or let’s say, rurbanising. Two decades under Nitish Kumar have created a new elite in its cities.

Wealth nears $99 trillion, still Asia’s rich don’t have succession plans

Much of this wealth is tied to founder-led businesses that employ millions and help anchor regional economies.

Turkey blocks transport of Apache choppers to India through its airspace, new route being worked out

Indian govt officials last month skipped Turkish National Day celebrations in Delhi, in a message to Ankara following its support for Islamabad, particularly during Operation Sindoor.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.