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...
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...