2014-01-10 Pakistan Criticizes India’s Moves to Fight Polio
Hello, and welcome to As It Is from VOA Learning English. I’m Christopher Cruise in Washington. Today on the program, we report on plans by public health workers to vaccinate…
2013-12-29 Pakistan Criticizes India’s Border Moves to Fight Polio
Hello, and welcome to As It Is from VOA Learning English. I’m Christopher Cruise in Washington. Today on the program, we report on plans by public health workers to vaccinate…
2013-09-12 World Partners Intensify Effort to End Polio
From VOA Learning English, this is As It Is. Welcome to the show. I’m Caty Weaver. On the program today, we explore the continuing international effort to end polio following…
2013-08-05 Increase in Polio in Somalia; Health Officials Fear Virus Could Spread
Hello, and welcome again to As It Is. I’m Steve Ember. Today we tell we tell about cases of the disease polio in Somalia and the danger that it might…
2019-11-28 More Polio Cases Now Caused by Oral Vaccine
Four African countries have reported new cases of polio linked to the oral vaccine meant to protect against the disease. Health numbers show more children are now being paralyzed by…
2018-07-23 Experts: Polio Could Again Spread Worldwide
Thanks to an effective vaccine, the polio virus has disappeared from most of the world. But, a few cases remain in areas that are among the most difficult to reach.…
2018-07-10 Doctors Treat Brain Cancer With Polio
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle Report. Researchers say a virus once feared around the world can help to treat some kinds of cancer in the…
2016-08-18 Polio Is Back in Nigeria
Nigerian officials have launched a polio vaccination campaign in the country’s northeast, where two new cases of the virus were found. Health officials say the virus was discovered in two…
2014-09-10 Is There a Deadly Polio Virus Hiding Somewhere?
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Report. Is a new deadly polio virus hiding somewhere in the world? Some scientists believe this might be the case. Polio does…
2013-11-06 Researchers Appeal for New Efforts to Stop Polio
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Report. Researchers have appealed for new efforts to stop polio in countries where the disease never seems to disappear. They say stronger…
2013-04-03 Polio remains a threat in some places
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Report in Special English. Most countries are now free of polio, but the disease remains a threat in some places including Nigeria.…
2007-10-24 Children’s Health: New Polio Worries in Africa | US Committee Urges Limits on Cough and Cold Drugs
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Today we have two reports, both about children. We start in Sudan. Health officials are launching a campaign to vaccinate eight million…
2005-05-11 More Distance on the Road to Ending Polio
I’m Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Health Report. In most of the world, the campaign to stop polio by the end of this year has already succeeded. Fewer…
2004-06-30 Polio Threatens Africa
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Health officials say the spread of polio from Nigeria into ten other countries in Africa threatens years of progress to end the…
2003-01-14 Campaign to End Polio
((THEME)) VOICE ONE: This is Phoebe Zimmerman. VOICE TWO: And this is Bob Doughty with Science in the News, a VOA Special English program about recent developments in science. Today,…