India land row 'stops polio jabs'
89558
Thousands of children in India are denied polio vaccines because of unrest over industrialisation plans, officials say.
109980
A week-long effort to immunise 300 million children in Africa and Asia against polio starts on Friday.
101843
LONDON -- Nearly 20 years ago, the World Health Organization and its partners launched an ambitious program to eradicate polio by the end of the millennium. That deadline passed and another was missed in 2005 _ and polio still strikes about 2,000 people a year, mostly children.
550999
Authorities in India's Kerala state are battling a fever outbreak that has claimed dozens of lives.
193464
TORKHAM, Pakistan-Afghan Border  - Shrugging off the danger of militant violence, Pakistan and Afghanistan on Tuesday launched a drive to eradicate polio from the rugged tribal lands on both sides of their border.
356520
WASHINGTON -- The final push toward global eradication of polio has been full of pitfalls, but those fighting the disease expect to finalize a plan today that they believe should wipe out the virus.
573468
A major polio epidemic in West and Central Africa is inevitable in coming months, but the disease could be eradicated worldwide next year by mass immunisations, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday.
596090
The U.N. health agency plans to vaccinate nearly 3 million children in the Horn of Africa this year against polio, a crippling disease that experts fear could spread rapidly along the region's volatile and porous borders.
498786
Outbreaks of polio in India and Africa are spreading rapidly, and experts warn that new infections could lead to an epidemic of international scale. (Part two of a three-part series on the resurgence of diseases once thought wiped out.)
694453
JOHANNESBURG -- The global effort to eradicate polio will not meet its deadline to stop transmission of the virus by the end of the year, a World Health Organization official acknowledged yesterday, citing the spread of cases from northern Nigeria.
85412
A review into contaminated polio vaccine has been ordered by Australia&#39;s Federal Health Minister Tony Abbott, after an investigation showed at least two batches were released for use after testing positive for contamination, according to a report in The
148195
The supply of low-cost generic versions of cancer and AIDS treatments for the developing world could be blocked if Novartis wins a legal challenge to Indiaâs patent law.
493077
The troubled 19-year-old campaign to eradicate polio is celebrating recent progress and an unexpected infusion of cash, but experts are coming to realize that they will not be able to end the expensive and laborious efforts to control the virus anytime soon.
674931
Some 13 million children in northern Nigeria are being vaccinated against polio in a bid to wipe out the disease.
622552
A huge  vaccination programme is underway in southern India - thousands are still missing in the Andamans.
417763
Polio has spread to two more African  countries where it had been eradicated, Guinea and Mali,  highlighting the risk of a major outbreak across west and  central Africa, international campaigners said on Tuesday.
721157
An Indian state said it had brought the country's worst ever bird flu outbreak under control on Saturday, just as neighbouring Bangladesh reported the virus was spreading.