Afghanistan’s Taliban has suspended a U.N.-led polio eradication effort, ordering a halt to house-to-house vaccinations. It’s ...

The Taliban has suspended polio vaccination campaigns across Afghanistan, the United Nations announced Monday. News of the ...

Afghanistan is one of two countries in which the spread of the potentially fatal, paralyzing disease has never been stopped.

It’s a devastating setback for polio eradication, since the virus is one of the world’s most infectious and any unvaccinated ...

Taliban suspends polio vaccination campaigns in Afghanistan, UN says - The UN says the Taliban have suspended polio ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- The Taliban have suspended polio vaccination campaigns in Afghanistan, the U.N. said Monday.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The Taliban have suspended polio vaccination campaigns in Afghanistan, the U.N. said Monday. It ...

More than 100 Pakistan police who provide security for polio vaccination teams in restive border areas went on strike ...

Gunmen opened fire on a polio vaccination team in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing one of those handing out doses and one policeman escorting him, police said, in an attack later claimed by ...

KHAR, Pakistan (AP) — Gunmen on motorcycles opened fire Wednesday on police escorting a team of polio workers during a door-to-door vaccination campaign in ... and a former stronghold of the Pakistani ...

"In the next few days we'll continue rolling out the polio vaccination campaign aiming to reach around 640,000 children under 10 with this critical vaccine," it added. Juliette Touma, UNRWA's ...

He said that 35,259 teams of trained polio workers, including 24,862 mobile teams, 7,300 observers, 1,724 fixed teams, 1,245 transit teams and 128 roaming teams have been constituted to administer ...