ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR) - Rockford Rotary honors World Polio Day by raising awareness and funds to end polio. World Polio Day ...

The Rockford Rotary Club is raising awareness and funds to end Polio worldwide. The club is partnering with the Community ...

Pakistan's government has been working to curb the spread of polio, including an initiative to vaccinate 32 million children.

Officials say Pakistan has witnessed a spike in new polio cases since March, in a troubling sign as the government seeks to eradicate the disease in the country ...

Pakistan reports a rise in polio cases, with 32 infections this year. A nationwide vaccination campaign protected 33 million ...

In 1988, the World Health Assembly resolved to eradicate poliomyelitis (polio), a disease capable of causing paralysis and death, by the year 2000. While the initial target date for polio eradication ...

Anti-polio campaigns in Pakistan are also marred by violence. Militants often target polio teams and police assigned to protect them.

by holding the polio eradication effort hostage. They know that Pakistan is one of only two countries where the disease is still endemic and that the country is under international pressure from ...

Religious clerics have also spread fake news. Pakistan is the other country in the world along with Afghanistan where polio is still running unchecked among children and infants, spreading mainly ...

Pakistani authorities have apprehended a key suspect in the gang rape of a female polio worker. Ahmad Jakhrani, one of the three men accused of the assault, was arrested overnight, local police ...

The assault on Thursday in Jacobabad, a district in the southern Sindh province, was one in a spate of attacks targeting polio vaccination teams going door to door in the campaign across Pakistan.