Pakistan confirms 18th polio case this year

A health worker manages polio drops to a child for vaccination on the first day of a national weekly poliovirus exit campaign in Karachi on 26 May 2025.-AFP A new case of poliovirus was confirmed on Friday in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, which increased the national count of Pakistan before 2025 to 18. The regional reference laboratory…

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Chikungunya cases in China surge past 7,000

A female mosquito is seen on the forearm of a health technician in a laboratory of the Entomology Department of the Ministry of Health in the city of Guatemala. – Reuters/File Authorities in China implement measures that are comparable to those implemented during the COVID-19 Pandemie, because more than 7,000 cases of the Chikungunya mosquito…

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Pakistan sees decline in polio detections, virus still present

A girl receives polio-vaccine drops, during an anti-polio campaign, in Karachi, July 20, 2020.-Reuterers Islamabad: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has reported that although high -quality vaccination campaigns have deposed positive environmental detections of the poliovirus, the virus is still circulating in some regions of Pakistan. According to July data from the country’s environmental…

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