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Mashup Score: 15
After no reported cases of wild polio for 19 weeks, vaccination efforts boosted at last endemic spots in Pakistan and Afghanistan
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Mashup Score: 10Districts of Pakistan boycott polio immunisation until economic and health demands are met - 5 month(s) ago
Tribal elders in the last remaining areas of Pakistan to have endemic wild polio are boycotting immunisation campaigns until the country’s government meets demands on infrastructure, livelihoods, and health. Various tribal jirga (assemblies) in the south of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in the country’s north west have staged 677 boycotts so far this year, with demands ranging from electricity provision to refuse collection. Without the boycotts, “I would have finished polio by the end of last year,” said Shahzad Baig, coordinator of Pakistan’s National Emergency Operations Centre for Polio Eradication. The growth of district-wide, large scale boycotts was highlighted at a 28 November press conference hosted by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, which is led by the World Health Organization. In Bannu, one of the …
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Mashup Score: 24
Nature – The campaign to eradicate polio could succeed in the next few years. But that’s just the beginning of a new challenge — keeping it away.
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Mashup Score: 24
Nature – The campaign to eradicate polio could succeed in the next few years. But that’s just the beginning of a new challenge — keeping it away.
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Mashup Score: 24
Nature – The campaign to eradicate polio could succeed in the next few years. But that’s just the beginning of a new challenge — keeping it away.
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Mashup Score: 107Poliomyelitis (polio) - 6 month(s) ago
Poliomyelitis (polio) is a highly infectious viral disease that largely affects children under 5 years of age. The virus is transmitted by person-to-person spread mainly through the faecal-oral route or, less frequently, by a common vehicle (e.g. contaminated water or food) and multiplies in the intestine, from where it can invade the nervous system and cause paralysis.
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Mashup Score: 107Poliomyelitis (polio) - 6 month(s) ago
Poliomyelitis (polio) is a highly infectious viral disease that largely affects children under 5 years of age. The virus is transmitted by person-to-person spread mainly through the faecal-oral route or, less frequently, by a common vehicle (e.g. contaminated water or food) and multiplies in the intestine, from where it can invade the nervous system and cause paralysis.
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Mashup Score: 11New funding to ensure 370 million children receive polio vaccinations and to boost health innovation in low-income countries - 7 month(s) ago
Today, the European Commission, the European Investment Bank and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced a new financing partnership to address critical global health opportunities: eradicating polio and ensuring that innovations in health are more accessible to the people who need them most.
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New funding, to protect 370 million children from #polio every year, puts the world on verge of eradicating polio once and for all: https://t.co/pl4h57WTu0 @EU_Commission, @EIB and @gatesfoundation announced a new financing partnership of €1.1 billion to help solve the health… https://t.co/JgqTbKBxqm https://t.co/oPL1tfcmgR
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Mashup Score: 2Asymptomatic immunodeficiency-associated vaccine-derived poliovirus infections in two UK children - 9 month(s) ago
Nature Communications – There is increasing incidence of vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV) in countries thought to be polio free. Here, the authors report detection of VDPV in 2 UK children with…
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Mashup Score: 1Quick takes: Global mpox cases, UK measles threat, polio in Africa - 10 month(s) ago
The WHO reports 316 new mpox cases and 2 new deaths, and the UK warns about a rise in measles transmission.
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RT @JeremyFarrar: Disease's global eradication ‘tantalisingly close’ #Polio @WHO @Rotary https://t.co/rLLakdhvuJ