The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is launching a task force to investigate and improve the treatment of the polio-like illness known as acute flaccid myelitis (AFM), according to ...

An inside look at how UNICEF and partners in Nigeria’s successful fight to end polio were able to quickly pivot toward a new public health threat, applying many of the same tools and resources to ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is amping up efforts to solve the mystery of the polio-like illness known as Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM), afflicting mostly children, by ...

The Federal Government says it will reconstitute an expanded Presidential Task force on Polio to include the 36 state governors in order to sustain the successes recorded in the efforts to eradicate ...

In order to maintain the zero prevalence level of poliomyelitis in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), the administration has reactivated the task force to tackle the disease. The task force has the ...

As part of strategies to ensure that Nigeria completely exits the list of polio- endemic countries by 2017, the Federal Government yesterday restated its commitment towards reconstituting the National ...

ATLANTA — It's a disease that has no known cause, no treatment and no vaccine. Dozens of families across the country are enduring the horror of seeing a child go from happy and healthy to paralyzed ...

The Provincial Task Force on Polio Eradication raised serious concerns over the recent detection of polio virus in environmental samples from Lahore and Dera Ghazi Khan, prompting a decision to ...

Commissioner Shaheed Benazirabad Division Nadeem Ahmed Abro chaired a meeting of the Divisional Task Force for Polio on Wednesday at Commissioner's Office. Addressing the meeting, Commissioner said ...

Dozens of families across the country are enduring the horror of seeing a child go from happy and healthy to paralyzed and in pain. That's exactly what happened to 3-year-old Aamira, who was diagnosed ...