University of Leeds researchers have taken a major step towards producing a more affordable and lower-risk polio vaccine ...

Data on the number of cases for these diseases from the pre-vaccine era is hard to come by, and even the case counts are ...

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A more affordable, lower-risk polio vaccine is on the horizon, research led by the University of Leeds has found.

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Health Syed Mustafa Kamal on Wedn­e­sday announced that polio eradication would ...

According to World Health Organization (WHO), polio is a highly infectious disease caused by a virus. The virus is transmitted by person-to-person spread mainly through the faecal-oral route or ...

Pakistan's Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health (NIH) Pakistan has ...

Oral polio vaccine (OPV), which contains live but weakened vaccine-virus, is also used in vaccination ... such strains can cause an outbreak through contact with faeces, often via contaminated ...

Researchers have taken a major step towards producing a more affordable and lower-risk polio vaccine using virus-like ...

Following the increase in the number of polio cases in Pakistan, media outlets have reported two new cases of the poliovirus, ...