Mumbai: As many as 9,40,011 children were administered polio drops in the Pulse Polio Immunization Programme by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Sunday. The civic body targeted a total of 13,13,370 children in the city on the National Immunization Day (NID).

Staff Reporter

SALEM: Over 5 lakh children aged below five years in Salem and Namakkal districts were administered polio drops in the second round of the pulse polio immunisation campaign held on Sunday.

Awareness programmes were organised to dispel the misconceptions about the administration of polio drops and encourage people to immunise their children against polio.

ISLAMABAD (January 29 2009): The government of Japan will provide US $4.7 million to United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) for eradication of polio in Pakistan. These funds would be used to procure 26 million doses of oral polio vaccine during 2009 that constitutes seven percent of the total requirement.

The endemic western UP region, epicentre of all polio outbreaks, remained free of P1 for a record one-and-a-half years till mid-2008
Bihar recorded only 3 new cases of the P1 virus in 2008
New injectible polio vaccine (IPV) to be used to eradicate the disease

Correspondent

by Satnam Singh

Poliomyelitis was targeted for eradication by 2005. Regretfully, in 2008 India and Nigeria were the only two countries left still reporting indigenous cases, 517 and 758 respectively. In the latter part of 2008, Pakistan and Afghanistan did not report any cases and are looking forward to consolidate the gains in 2009.

KOHIMA, Jan 5

The district level task force of the State Health Department here met recently at the conference hall of the Deputy Commissioner

The promising results from trials of a malaria vaccine developed by GlaxoSmithKline have kindled hopes of a breakthrough in combating this mosquito-transmitted disease that infects nearly 250 million people, killing about a million every year.

This follows the panic triggered by rumours on Sunday
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