In Yemen conflict, preventable diseases are a deadly side effect for children
Health workers recently fanned across Yemen to vaccinate millions of children against polio, one of the disease risks in a country immersed in conflict.
Photo: Preventing polio in Yemen
A Yemeni child receives polio vaccination during an immunization campaign at a health center in the capital of Sanaa.
D.A. Henderson, who led successful effort to eradicate smallpox, dies
Henderson, a few weeks shy of his 88th birthday, died late Friday of complications that arose after he recently fractured a hip.
Nigeria launches emergency measures after first polio cases in 2 years
Nigerian military helicopters rushed emergency polio vaccines to Nigeria’s northern state of Borno on Friday morning, in response to Africa’s first cases of the polio virus in more than two years.
Two years after the World Health Organization declared India polio-free, an active strain of the virus has been found in samples of sewage water in the southern city of Hyderabad.
This weekend marks the start of a global effort that health officials are hoping will be the final push to eradicate polio.
The World Health Organization reports two children in southwestern Ukraine have been diagnosed with polio for the first time in Europe since 2010.
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