Activists Who Hate McDonald’s More Than Polio
According to the British Medical Journal, some activists apparently hate McDonald’s more than polio and are angered at UNICEF’s deal with the former to fight the latter. McDonald’s has an agreement...
View ArticleWHO to Launch Intensive Polio Immunization Effort in India
Following the largest polio epidemic in recent history, the World Health Organization is launching an intensive immunization effort in India. An estimated 1.3 million volunteers will go to door to door...
View ArticlePolio Cases Increase Thanks Largely to Indian Outbreak
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported in April that cases of polio worldwide increased four-fold in 2002 due largely to an outbreak of the disease in India. In 2001 there were...
View ArticleNew WHO Chief Pledges to Make Polio Eradication a Priority
Newly installed World Health Organization director-general Jong-wook Lee pledged to step up efforts to eradicate polio by 2005, but the WHO might not have the funds to follow up on Lee’s pledge. In a...
View ArticleFears of Polio Vaccine Grip Nigeria
The World Health Organization’s goal of eradicating polio worldwide by 2005 ran into a major obstacle in October 2003 when three Nigerian states suspended polio vaccination over fears that the vaccine...
View ArticleWHO Reports Polio Setback
At the same time that some countries are complaining that the polio vaccine is dangerous, the World Health Organization announced in January that new cases of polio had been discovered in two African...
View ArticleWHO Investigating Possible Polio Outbreak in Nigeria
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports that the World Health Organization is investigating a possible outbreak of polio in the northern Nigerian state of Kano. Kano...
View ArticleNigeria to Resume Polio Vaccination
Governor Ibrahim Shekarau of Nigeria’s Kano state this month removed an 11-month ban on polio vaccination in that state. Polio vaccinations were halted in August 2003 after absurd claims that the polio...
View ArticleMore than 170 Million Indian Children Receive Polio Vaccination
In what was billed as a major effort to eradicate polio from India, more than 170 million children under five were vaccinated against polio over a three day period earlier this month. Simultaneously,...
View ArticleWill Polio Ever Be Eradicated?
The World Health Organization maintains that it will eradicate polio worldwide, but the disease is beginning to re-emerge in African countries that had previously been polio-free. Will anti-polio...
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