Three new polio cases bring total to 91 this year

All three new cases emerged from Tehsil Bara of Khyber Agency. A five-year-old girl Sumbul was detected with polio virus. Similarly a one-year-old Simran, hailing from Bara, was also found inflicted with polio. She lived in Shahdalay, a village of Bara.

In another case from the same district, a one-and-a-half-year old boy, identified as Ibrahim, was detected with a polio virus. He is a resident of Mirankhel.

In 2013, a total of 93 cases of polio cases were reported from across the country. However, 91 such cases have already been reported in a period of seven months this year.