Another polio case reported in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- By Web Desk -
- Jun 13, 2019
ISLAMABAD: Another polio case on Thursday surfaced in Shangla, a district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, ARY News reported.
Sources in Health Ministry said that poliovirus had been confirmed in a 2-year-old boy in Shangla area of KP, bringing the total number of polio cases in the country to 20 this year.
Sources further added that samples of the child were sent for tests on May 30.
It is worthy to note here that Poliovirus is creating havoc in Pakistan and Afghanistan. The virus has been eliminated from the rest of the countries of the world.
With another polio case, the total number for the current year cases has jumped to 23 in Pakistan, out of which, 10 cases were reported in KP, seven in tribal districts and three each in Sindh and Punjab provinces.
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The extensive environmental surveillance established by the Pakistan Polio Eradication Programme in previous months detected the polio virus in sewage of twelve cities.
According to result shared by the National Emergency Operations Centre (NEOC), the presence of virus was confirmed in sewage samples collected in March 2019 from cities of Peshawar, Lahore, Karachi, Rawalpindi, Mardan, Bannu, Waziristan, Hyderabad, Kambar and Sukkur.