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The World Health Organization announces that its polio vaccination campaign in the Gaza Strip has surpassed its intended target of 156,500 projected vaccinations within two days.
2024-09-3

Two policemen are killed when gunmen open fire on them as they are escorting polio workers in Gomal, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
2022-08-16

Gunmen kill three female polio vaccination health workers in Jalalabad, Nangarhar.
2021-03-30

Ireland officially begins a vaccination programme against COVID-19 using Pfizer-BioNTech's tozinameran vaccine, with a 79-year-old woman from Dublin becoming the first person to receive the vaccine.
2020-12-29

Gunmen kill two police officers escorting a polio vaccination team in Lower Dir District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
2019-12-18

Governor of California Jerry Brown signs a bill into law requiring all children to get vaccinations before being allowed to go to school or day care.
2015-06-30

U.S. drone strikes in North Waziristan kill at least four suspected Taliban militants.
2015-04-12

Gunmen kill six health workers engaged in a polio vaccination drive in Pakistan, highlighting resistance to a program opposed by the Taliban.
2012-12-18

Pakistan: A U.S. drone missile attack kills at least seven presumed militants in two vehicles in the Mana area of North Waziristan in Pakistan.
2012-08-19

Ghulam Nabi Azad, India's Minister of Health and Family Welfare, reports that the country has almost entirely eradicated polio through a vaccination program which immunises over 170 million children every year. No new polio cases have been reported in India for over nine months.
2011-10-24