By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 19 September 2006 Indian health worker gives polio drops to a baby at a primary health center in Lankamura village, near the India-Bangladesh border, September 10, 2006 A resurgence of the deadly polio virus in northern...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 07 May 2006 Maroufa, 4, receives polio vaccination in Kabul The World Health Organization is conducting a massive polio immunization campaign along the dangerous Afghan-Pakistan...
By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 06 March 2006 Maroufa, 4, receives polio vaccination in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, March. 5, 2006 Afghan volunteers are vaccinating millions of children in a nationwide ant...
SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - Saying Goodbye to Polio: Not There Yet, but Close By Karen Leggett and Cynthia Kirk Broadcast: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Sp...
SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - Polio: How an Ancient Disease Met a Modern Prevention By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English....
DEVELOPMENT REPORT - Polio Campaign in Africa By Karen Leggett Broadcast: Monday, October 11, 2004 This is Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Development Report. Health workers in West and Centra...
DEVELOPMENT REPORT - Polio Vaccine 50th Anniversary By Karen Legget and Jill Moss Broadcast: Monday, May 03, 2004 This is Robert Cohen with the VOA Special English Development Report. Fifty years ago,...
Broadcast: Mar 16, 2003 It takes three months to get an appointment at the Post Polio Institute in Englewood, New Jersey, where patients are evaluated and treated for Post-Polio Sequelae. These polio...
By Nico Colombant World Health Organization officials say the northern Nigerian state of Kano will start a catch-up polio immunization campaign Saturday, ending an 11-month religious-led boycott. The...
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...