the WHO declared Pakistan's polio crisis an "extraordinary event" mandating an immediate international response. Ebola is the only other disease that is currently designated by the WHO as a global ...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan—The country's polio crisis is threatening to spread the virus across the world, health officials said, as Islamist militants target vaccination teams, killing three health ...

The result has been a spike in polio infections in Pakistan, which is one of only ... create perfect conditions for the virus. The refugee crisis also comes in the hot summer months, when the ...

Pakistan is set to resume vaccinations against polio on July 20, months after the effort was halted by attacks on aid workers and as the coronavirus pandemic overwhelmed the country's health system.

Pakistan has reported another polio case in 2024, bringing the total to 33 this year after a child from Quetta was diagnosed with the virus. The affected child showed symptoms of polio on August 22.

Pakistan’s first animated female superhero, the "Burka Avenger," is lending her powers to fight her country’s worsening polio crisis. More than 85 percent of all polio cases this year were ...

The northwest tribal belt, an ethnic Pashtun region near the Afghan border and the epicenter of polio in Pakistan ... posted online that added to the crisis. One showed a man, who was later ...

ISLAMABAD—Tens of thousands of children who haven't been immunized against polio are pouring out of the Pakistani region of North Waziristan with their families to escape a military offensive ...

BANNU, Pakistan — The rugged Pakistani region of North Waziristan emerged as a hotbed of polio infections after Taliban militants in the isolated area banned immunizations. Now the Pakistani ...

Pakistan is set to resume vaccinations against polio on July 20, months after the effort was halted by attacks on aid workers and as the coronavirus pandemic overwhelmed the country's health system.