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Islamabad: Pakistan has still not been able to get rid of the disease which India has controlled long ago. The name of this disease is polio and it has become a 'shame' for Pakistan. Three new cases of polio virus have been reported from Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces of Pakistan, increasing the total number of cases of infection this year to 55. This information was received from a media news on Monday.
Cases have come to light earlier also
The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health has confirmed three cases of poliovirus type 1 (WPV1), Dawn newspaper reported. The children found infected include two girls aged 8 and 20 months and a boy aged five months. An official of the laboratory was quoted as saying that the new cases have been reported from Dera Ismail Khan, Zhob and Jafrabad districts. Cases of polio virus have already been reported this year in all three districts.
Sharif government had taken steps
Let us tell you that Pakistan is among those few countries where polio has not been eradicated yet. Earlier recently, when new cases of polio were reported in Pakistan, the Sharif government had started a new vaccination campaign across the country. It is also worth noting that vaccination campaigns are conducted regularly in Pakistan, but terrorist attacks keep happening on health workers and the police personnel providing security to them.
Pakistan Polio Vaccination
opposition to fundamentalists
Fundamentalists in Pakistan believe that polio drops make a person impotent. He says that this is a big conspiracy to reduce the population of Muslims. In the last 12 years, 109 people have lost their lives in the polio campaign. Many people have been kidnapped. 284 people associated with polio campaign have been killed in Pakistan, including 166 policemen and 87 health workers. (Language)
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