Showing posts with label Pakistan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pakistan. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Pakistan: 3 More Polio Workers Murdered

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  # 8201   This headline is sadly becoming all too common, as once again attacks on polio workers have claimed multiple lives in ...
Friday, December 13, 2013

Pakistan: 3 More Polio Workers Killed

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# 8069   Via Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty , we get the sad news that another series of attacks has killed three Polio workers and/...
Monday, October 07, 2013

Pakistan: Bomb Attack On Polio Vaccination Protection Team Kills 2

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  # 7841   The violent campaign against the polio vaccination effort in Pakistan continues, with a fresh bomb attack in a Peshawar...
Tuesday, September 24, 2013

USGS: 7.8 Magnitude Earthquake In Pakistan

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      # 7806   A strong (preliminary 7.8 magnitude), relatively shallow (15 km) earthquake struck the Awaran district of Pakist...
Sunday, June 16, 2013

Pakistan: Gunmen Kill Two More Anti-Polio Workers

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  # 7402   The carnage in Pakistan continues, with twin attacks yesterday in the southwest – including an assault on a hospital – c...
Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Pakistan: Another Polio Vaccination Related Murder

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    # 6969   The murderous vendetta against polio vaccination teams in Pakistan continues with word today that a policeman was kil...
Monday, January 21, 2013

Twitter Updates From Pakistan On Polio Virus Detected In Egypt

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      # 6872     Details are just beginning to emerge on the recent discovery of polio viruses in samples taken from Cairo’s ...

Polio Virus Detected By Environmental Surveillance In Egypt

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  Child receiving Polio Vaccine – CDC PHIL   # 6871     Earlier today a media story of Polio being discovered in Egypt ( w...
Friday, January 04, 2013

Pakistan To Resume Polio Vaccinations

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  # 6822     Three times in recent weeks we’ve seen horrific coordinated attacks made against aid workers, either involved with or...
Tuesday, January 01, 2013

7 More Aid Workers Killed In Pakistan

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  # 6813   On this first day of 2013, more horrendous news out of Pakistan, where last month 9 health care workers involved in a vac...
Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Pakistan: 6 Polio Workers Murdered

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  # 6789     Reports are still coming in, but we’ve the horrendous news this morning that 6 UN polio vaccination workers in Pakis...
Tuesday, October 09, 2012

Pakistan: Naegleria Fowleri Blamed For 10 Deaths

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L & R: Trophozoites of N. fowleri in brain tissue, stained with H&E. Center: Ameboflagellate trophozoite of N. fowleri. Credit: ...
Saturday, July 21, 2012

WHO/UNICEF Statement On Shooting Of Polio Team Doctor

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    # 6444   Overnight word came down that a doctor working with the polio eradication effort in Pakistan had been shot and killed. ...
Monday, December 12, 2011

Pakistan’s War Of Words On Bird Flu

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    Photo Credit – FAO   # 6003     Yesterday Pakistan’s Daily Times carried a report highly critical of the government’s ...
Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Referral: Maryn McKenna On The Reported CIA Vaccination Ruse

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    # 5690   Over the past 24 hours the media, and that includes the Internet’s blogosphere, has been filled with reactions ov...
Thursday, July 07, 2011

WHO: Polio In Pakistan

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    # 5678   Since 1988 when the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) was launched, there has been a a 99% reduction in th...
Friday, May 20, 2011

EID Journal: Unraveling Pakistan’s H5N1 Outbreak

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      # 5564     A fascinating dispatch appears today in the CDC’s   EID Journal that gives us new insight into Pakistan’s H5N1...
Monday, October 25, 2010

WHO On Cholera/CCHF/Dengue Outbreaks In Pakistan

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    # 5010     Two updates today from the World Health Organization on the ongoing outbreaks of several infectious dise...