Vaccination is a bulwark against deadly infectious diseases. Done right, it protects whole populations from diseases that can cause disability and premature death. History bears witness to catastrophic epidemics that decimated large populations. In 1918, the Spanish flu infected more than a quarter of the world’s population and killed between 30 million and 100 million […]
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Polio worker killed for ‘convincing family to vaccinate child’
A young polio worker was killed in the line of his duty in Mohmand district on Monday, according to Focal Person to the Prime Minister on Polio Eradication Babar Atta. In a tweet, he said a young polio worker identified as Wajid from Mohmand tribal district embraced Shahdat as “reportedly he was trying to convince […]
Emergence of World’s First Extensively Drug-Resistant Typhoid Fever in Pakistan
An ongoing outbreak of world’s first extensively drug-resistant (XDR) typhoid fever has been reported in Pakistan which does not respond to most of the available antibiotics. The earlier case of XDR typhoid was reported in Hyderabad in November 2016. Several cases have also been in the United Kingdom and in the United States among the people who […]