Poliomyelitis, known as polio, is a viral disease that can cause paralysis. It once infected millions of people each year, but vaccination efforts around the world have brought the yearly number of new cases to just less than 1000. That dramatic redu...
By Steve Herman New Delhi 01 January 2008 India remains one of the few countries where polio has not been eradicated. Most of the world's new cases are reported in the subcontinent. While the total number of cases dropped in India last year, VOA cor...
By Carol Pearson Washington 24 October 2007 October 24th is World Polio Day. Since 1988, national governments, public health organizations and civic organizations have slashed the number of polio cases by more than 99 percent. But now the eradication...
By Sarah Simpson Kano 11 April 2007 Lawal Manesara, left, discuss with Ali Usman, centre, and sani Bako, right, all polio victims in a street of Lagos, Nigeria, 4 May 2005 Many polio victims in the northern Nigerian city, Kano, have turned their back...
By Sarah Simpson Kano, Nigeria 22 March 2007 Northern Nigeria is one of the few regions in the world where polio remains endemic, despite efforts to eradicate this crippling and potentially fatal virus. Sarah Simpson reports from the north's largest...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 28 February 2007 The World Health Organization held Wednesday a meeting in Geneva to devise strategies aimed at finishing the job of eradicating polio worldwide. Lisa Schlein reports for VOA from WHO headquarters in Geneva tha...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 05 November 2006 Sudanese Red Crescent employee vaccinates a boy against polio in Kalma Camp near southern Darfur (File photo) The ministries of health in both northern and southern Sudan, backed by the U.N. children's fund, t...
By George Dwyer Washington, DC 06 October 2006 watch Afghanistan Polio report The number of polio cases reported in Afghanistan so far this year is up sharply over figures tallied for the whole of 2005. As VOA's George Dwyer reports, nearly all of t...
Steve Baragona Polio is on the ropes. A $3 billion global campaign has driven the crippling and sometimes-fatal disease to just six source countries. Experts say the campaign has the potential to win...
45 国际小儿麻痹预防运动 DATE=5-7-01 TITLE=DEVELOPMENT REPORT - UN Polio Campaign BYLINE=Jill Moss (Start at 1'01")This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Since Nineteen-Eighty-Ei...
