Polio

The World Health Organization, WHO, has called on the African continent to put quality surveillance systems in place to prevent a resurgence of the wild polio virus in the continent. READ ALSO: Polio Outbreak: Immunization Takes off In…

The first wild poliovirus case in Africa in more than five years has been detected in a young child in Malawi, the World Health Organization said. The Malawian health authorities have declared an outbreak of wild poliovirus type 1 after…

The Ugandan government has announced a polio emergency and blamed the outbreak to the COVID-19 pandemic during which resources were diverted from polio vaccination projects. The Health Ministry said in a statement that scientists have…

More than 900,000 children below the ages of five will be vaccinated with the Inactivated Polio Virus 2 vaccine in Cross River State, South-south Nigeria. Also, more than 300,000 pregnant women are expected to receive essential…