For the last three years, Inayat Amran, a resident of the eastern province of Khost, has been working as a poliovirus vaccination volunteer.There are just two countries in the world where polio is still endemic: Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Polio has been eradicated over most of the world, but Pakistan is still fighting the disease, in part because of skepticism about vaccines. One woman is fighting to change that…
Abdullah Khan’s 11-month-old son, Hamza, contracted polio after the family refused to let a visiting health team in Pakistan’s Balochistan region give his child vaccination drops. He’s now urging other parents not to make the same mistake. Pakistan resumed a polio-vaccination campaign in July after efforts were halted by attacks on aid workers and the coronavirus pandemic
region in Africa that includes 43 nations has been certified free of the wild polio virus (Aug. 24) after Nigeria, the last endemic country, recorded no new cases for the past three consecutive years. Nigeria’s polio survivors are celebrating the eradication of the virus, even though many still face challenges
As the rumors spread, thousands of panicked parents rushed their children by car, motorcycle, and foot to major hospitals in the city, forcing the stunned health facilities to declare emergencies