Pakistan’s first nationwide polio campaign of 2025 launched the first week of February, aiming to vaccinate over 45.4 million children under the age of 5 in 159 of the country's 166 districts.

Pakistan confirms its second polio case of 2025 in the Sindh region, following the first case in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Despite ...

In 2024, Pakistan reported 74 confirmed cases of polio, with 27 from Balochistan, 22 from KP, 23 from Sindh, and one each from Punjab and Islamabad. The new infection comes at the heels of the ...

Health workers vaccinate a 2-year-old child during a polio vaccination campaign in January 2015 in a rural area of Tehsil Fateh Jang, Punjab in Pakistan. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/ CDC Global ...

ISLAMABAD — Unidentified gunmen shot and killed on Monday a police officer working on Pakistan's first polio vaccination drive of the year, police said. Pakistan has deployed thousands of police ...

Islamabad: Pakistan has confirmed its second polio case of 2025, according to the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication, ARY News reported.

Pakistan held its first polio vaccination drive of 2025, sending workers door-to-door to vaccinate 45 million children. A spike in cases in 2024 was a setback for the eradication of the disease.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — After years of decline, polio is surging again in this populous South Asian nation, dimming hopes that the viral disease — eradicated nearly everywhere else on Earth ...

However, the global fight against polio has encountered a significant setback, as cases of the disease have begun to rise again in Pakistan. Despite being on the brink of eradication in 2023 ...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan, Tuesday, confirmed the detection of the 74th wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) case of 2024 in the country as regional reference laboratory for polio eradication of National ...