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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.

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Postcards from Hyderabad—stories Europeans told about the city

For all their colonial underpinnings, postcards from Hyderabad also inadvertently preserve a trace of local memory: a glimpse of a street, a face, a forgotten name.

Navigating Trump’s tariffs is no child’s play. Indian toymakers are losing out on orders, enquiries

Indian toymakers are now exploring new markets, but they want govt to negotiate a trade deal with US soon, introduce incentives and subsidies to make the industry more competitive.

What is Project Sudarshan Chakra, announced by Modi from ramparts of Red Fort

The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?