By Aluta News Oct. 17, 2022 U.S. billionaire and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates on Monday said he was ready to have a meeting with the Taliban if it would help eradicate poliomyelitis in Afghanistan. “Honestly, I don’t know if there’s some sensitivity around that. I would do pretty much anythingContinue Reading
By Aluta News Feb. 18, 2022 In Africa, the landlocked country of Malawi has reported the first wild polio outbreak on the continent in several years. The wild type 1 poliovirus was discovered in a child in the city of Lilongwe, the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced on Friday. LaboratoryContinue Reading
By Aluta News Jan. 13, 2022 The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) insists there is no outbreak of Wild Polio Virus in some states of the federation. The NPHCDA said there had not been any new case of the disease in the country since the last case witnessedContinue Reading
By Aluta News Sept 6, 2021 The Representative of the United Nation’s Children Fund (UNICEF) in Nigeria, Dr Peter Hawkins, has disclosed that a massive outbreak of vaccine-derived polio has been reported in Nigeria. Hawkins disclosed this in his remarks at the third Quarter Northern Traditional Leaders Committee on Primary HealthContinue Reading
By Aluta News Aug 14, 2021 The Adamawa Government has confirmed the reemergence and detection of Circulating Vaccine Derived Poliovirus type 2 case in the state. Prof. Abdullahi Isa, the stateCommissioner for Health and Human Services, disclosed this during the official flag off of first Round Outbreak Response immunisation onContinue Reading
