Health workers vaccinate a child in a community hall in Songal Gadap, Karachi, Pakistan. on 03 August 2022. (Photo: Courtesy of Rotary International.) Ready for some good news in 2023? Well, efforts ...

Between September and December 2024, four countries in the EU/EEA (Finland, Germany, Poland, Spain) and the United Kingdom reported detections of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) ...

Afghanistan and Pakistan — the two countries in which polio is still endemic — are closer than they have ever been to eradicating wild poliovirus, the World Health Organization (WHO) said last month.

The recent detection of circulating variant poliovirus type 2 (cVPV2) in Adamawa State has prompted Authorities to intensify ...

The novel type 2 oral polio vaccine (nOPV2), developed by a team including scientists from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), has today (9 January) been quality-assured ...

LONDON (Reuters) -The wild form of the virus behind polio has been detected in wastewater sampling in Germany, the nation's main public health body told Reuters on Wednesday, in a setback for efforts ...

On February 10, 2026, the World Health Organization (“WHO”) prequalified a new novel oral polio vaccine type 2 (“nOPV2”) product. The newly prequalified product will be manufactured by Biological E.

On Christmas Eve in 2025, there was no Santa or candies for a seven-year-old from Makhetha Township in Blantyre, who was diagnosed with a once-eliminated polio virus. The unvaccinated child was on ...

The prequalification status confirms that the vaccine complies with international benchmarks for quality, safety, and effectiveness in global immunization programs. It allows procurement and ...

The Ministry of Health has issued a statement reassuring the public that Botswana remains polio-free, with no confirmed cases of poliovirus reported to date.However, the detection of circulating ...