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Ban Calls for Renewed Effort to Wipe Out Polio Creating a polio-free world - that is what international leaders gathered in New York said they hope to do. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon expressed his delight at the new promises by member states t
SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - Polio Vaccine Ban in Parts of Nigeria / Safety Laws Urged for India / Two More Elements? By Broadcast: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 (THEME) VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in
DEVELOPMENT REPORT - New Vaccine Aids Fight to End Polio By Karen Leggett Broadcast: Monday, October 24, 2005 This is Shep O'Neal with the VOA Special English Development Report. A new kind of vaccine
Broadcast: Apr 08, 2003 The World Health Organization has intensified efforts to eliminate the crippling disease polio in India following a dramatic increase in cases during the past year. Health offi
HEALTH REPORT - Polio Threatens Africa By Cynthia Kirk Broadcast: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Health officials say the spread of polio from Nigeria into ten
HEALTH REPORT –August 28, 2002: Post-Polio Condition By Jill Moss (Photo -WHO) This is the VOA Special English Health Report. In nineteen-eighty-eight, a major campaign to end the disease polio was
HEALTH REPORT - Post Polio Syndrome By Karen Leggett Broadcast: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Polio is a disease of the muscles and the nervous system. It is
India Achieves Milestone in Global Polio Eradication International reaction To help India celebrate one year since its last reported case of polio, U.S. Health Secretary, Dr. Kathleen Sebelius, came to administer oral polio vaccine to Indian children
Groups Resisting Global Polio Vaccination Efforts Health officials in Pakistan say they are redoubling efforts to vaccinate every child against polio after 198 new cases were reported in the country last year, the largest number anywhere in the world
Funding Shortfalls Threaten Polio Eradication The WHO-sponsored World Health Assembly ended recentedly in Geneva, Switzerland, with the announcement of a new strategy to wipe out the polio virus forever. Organizers said global polio eradication has s
Efforts to eradicate polio have been frustrated by a variety of factors, and unlike smallpox, the disease has defied long-running and expensive efforts to wipe it out. Now, a new study indicates that one of several polio vaccines can be effective at
Global Polio Eradication Gets Major Boost Staff Benda Bilili, a group of eight former street musicians from Kinshasa, Congo, are singing their signature song Polio. Four of the musicians are disabled polio victims. They sing about the disease that dr
Polio Victim Searches for Love in 'The Sessions' In the movie and in real life, Mark O'Brien contracted polio when he was six years old. Although he was paralyzed from the neck down, he went on to graduate from university and have a career as a write
The World Health Organization said polio is spreading in Angola and has crossed into neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo, creating an international threat. A vaccine for polio was discovered more than 50 years ago, but according to data released
One Year On, India Fights to Remain Polio-Free To get a sense of how India was able to fight the highly contagious and crippling polio virus, one does not have to look any further than this home - in a Muslim-majority area of Ghaziabad, in the northe
Pakistan Battling Not Only Polio, but Misinformation SHABQADAR, PAKISTAN Pakistan is losing ground in the battle against polio, with the country suffering its worst outbreaks in more than a decade. Efforts to erase polio are hampered by suspicions th
Global Initiative Unveils Six-Year Plan to Eradicate Polio A new campaign has been announced to eradicate polio. The six-year plan costing $5.5 billion was unveiled Thursday at the Global Vaccine Summit in Abu Dhabi. The Global Polio Initiative says
Polio Chased From Southeast Asia WASHINGTON A swath of territory from India to Indonesia has been declared free of polio, a crippling and sometimes fatal disease. The World Health Organization said 80 percent of the worlds population now lives in are
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 24 December 2007 The World Health Organization says the most infectious type of polio could be eradicated worldwide by next year, leaving only one more strain of the disease to be tackled. WHO, which began its global polio erad
India remains one of the few countries where polio has not been eradicated. Most of the world's new cases are reported in the subcontinent. While the total number of cases dropped in India last year,that one variant of the virus is actually on the in