Polio is no longer endemic in Nigeria - UN health agency

Sep 26, 2015, at 03:30 pm

New York, Sept 26 (IBNS) The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Friday that polio is no longer endemic in Nigeria, leaving the devastating disease endemic in only two countries and bringing the world one major step closer to achieving this goal of ending polio for good.

Ahead of World Day, UN hails landmark global polio eradication campaign

Oct 24, 2014, at 04:25 pm

New York, Oct 24 (IBNS) Every day, a thousand or so children are being protected from disability as part of a 26-year global effort to eradicate polio through a worldwide campaign that has immunized millions of previously-unreached children across the globe, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on the eve of World Polio Day.

UN declares emergency to stem potential resurgence of polio

May 06, 2014, at 06:22 pm

New York, May 6 (IBNS): The spread of polio in countries where it was once eradicated is an "extraordinary event" and unless an international coordinated response is urgently put in place, the preventable disease will resurge, the United Nations health agency on Monday warned.

UN renews anti-polio efforts in Middle East

Apr 09, 2014, at 05:08 pm

New York, Apr 9 (IBNS): With the recent discovery of a new case of polio in a six-month-old boy in Iraq, the United Nations and it partners, warning that the crippling virus still poses a threat to children across the Middle East, have re-launched a massive vaccination campaign in Syria, Iraq and Egypt, aiming to reach 22 million children by Thursday.