Pakistan and neighboring Afghanistan are the only two polio-endemic nations, reporting 49 and 23 cases respectively, so far this year, up from only six cases each in 2023. The latest case in Pakistan ...

World Health Organization reports 64 polio infections this year: 41 in Pakistan and 23 in Afghanistan, up from six each in ...

The report noted that a total of 71 polio cases have been documented, with 23 occurring in Afghanistan and 48 in Pakistan. Afghanistan and Pakistan remain the only two countries in the world where ...

In neighbouring Afghanistan, at least 18 polio cases have been confirmed this year, according to the World Health Organization. Pakistan and Afghanistan are the world’s last two countries where ...

Pakistani officials say militants attacked a health center used in an ongoing anti-polio campaign in the country's northwest, ...

The World Health Organization has confirmed 18 polio cases in Afghanistan this year, all but two in the south of the country. That’s up from six cases in 2023. Afghanistan used a house-to-house ...

Nine people were killed, including five children, in a bombing on Friday that targeted a southwest Pakistan polio drive, ...

Seventy-six districts were affected in all, the program said. Pakistan and Afghanistan are the only countries where polio ...

Militant attacks and suspicion stemming from misinformation are hampering Pakistan's battle to eradicate polio, but teams of ...

Pakistan and Afghanistan are the only two countries in the world where the spread of polio has never been stopped. It is one of the world’s most infectious diseases, so it continues to spread ...

ISLAMABAD — Polio cases are rising ahead of a new vaccination campaign in Pakistan, where violence targeting health workers and the police protecting them has hampered years of efforts toward ...