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LAHORE : Amid frequent outbreaks in other provinces, Punjab closed the year 2023 without a polio case, achieving a significant milestone in fight against the crippling virus.The achievement can be...
Officials of the Border Health Services were tasked to support the polio teams deployed at airports.
They were taken from five districts of country
After the success of eradicating smallpox, the journey began nearly 40 years ago to also remove polio from the planet. The challenge of consigning a second disease to the history books is ongoing, with $1 billion per year being spent trying to destroy it. The simplest of all public health interventions - a few drops of vaccine into a child’s mouth-is enmeshed by a complex web of geopolitical barriers. The definitive interruption of poliovirus transmission will only be possible if the Polio Programme can overcome them.
A variety of new hurdles has emerged in the long, difficult struggle to eradicate polio, a disabling and life-threatening disease caused by the poliovirus that can infect the spinal cord