Pakistan: 2014 Polio cases- Cases Rising- 295 cases total yr. to date

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Source: http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2014...ed-in-karachi/


Another polio case detected in Karachi
3 hrs ago |

KARACHI -

Just after eight days, another polio case has been detected in Karachi, raising the toll to 86 in the country, the National Health Organisation said on Thursday.

Arsalan, two, a resident of Ittehad Town, has never been vaccinated against polio.

This year?s first case of polio in the country was detected in a one-year-old girl in Karachi on January 1. After this case, toll of polio affected babies reached to 86 in the country...

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Re: Pakistan: 2014 Polio cases- another case reported in Karachi

Source: http://tribune.com.pk/story/657327/v...ign-in-jamrud/


The Express Tribune
Vaccinators refuse to join polio campaign in Jamrud
By AFP
Published: January 10, 2014

PESHAWAR: Health workers in Jamrud Friday refused to participate in a polio vaccination campaign because of security threats, officials said.

The three-day campaign in the Khyber tribal district is due to start on Saturday, almost three weeks after gunmen shot dead a worker while he was administering polio drops and vaccines to children in the town of Jamrud...

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Re: Pakistan: 2014 Polio cases- 5 more cases reported

Source: http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-New...lio-cases-in-a

Peshawar

Fata reports five more polio cases in a single day
Mushtaq Yusufzai
Sunday, January 12, 2014
From Print Edition

PESHAWAR: Officials of the Prime Minister Polio Cell, who are trying to eradicate polio through meetings and closed door briefings, received another setback within days of Maulana Samiul Haq’s issuance of a public statement against his own polio fatwa and emergence of five more polio cases from Fata on Saturday only.

The detection of five new cases in a single day from Fata also poured cold water on the high level meeting chaired by President Mamnoon Hussain at the Governor’s House on Saturday, where yet again more promises and commitments were made through closed door briefings to lift the ban on polio immunisation in North Waziristan Agency and provide security to the polio workers in Fata...


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Source: http://www.nation.com.pk/editors-pic...ses-reaches-91

Number of 2013 polio cases reaches 91

January 12, 2014
Asma Ghani

ISLAMABAD - Surfacing of five new polio cases in a single day took the number of cases in 2013 to 91 Saturday.
All the wild type-1 cases have surfaced from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) that have reported the highest number of cases as around 261000 children from the North and South Waziristan agencies have been unvaccinated since the Taliban banned vaccinations in the area in June 2012 due to drone strikes.
A polio case is counted from the day when the stool samples were collected. And the aforementioned cases were reported during the third week of December 2013 but have been confirmed by the laboratory on Saturday. As laboratory takes almost 3-4 weeks to confirm the presence of poliovirus in the stool samples of a child, the first case of 2014 will be reported somewhere during the first week of February.
Officials at National Institute of Health (NIH) say more cases from the last year coming and the number of 2013 may reach to nearly 100...

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Source: http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/0...0KR37I20140117


Pakistani city is world's biggest reservoir of polio viruses
By Katharine Houreld
Fri Jan 17, 2014 4:43pm IST

ISLAMABAD Jan 17 (Reuters) - Pakistan's volatile northwestern city of Peshawar is the largest reservoir of endemic polio viruses in the world, the World Health Organization said on Friday, amid concerns over continuing violence against polio vaccination teams.

Pakistan is also the only polio-endemic country in the world where polio cases rose from 2012 to 2013, the statement said. There were 91 cases last year but only 58 the year before...

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First four polio cases in 2014 came from NWA
Mushtaq Yusufzai
Monday, January 20, 2014
From Print Edition

PESHAWAR: The laboratory has confirmed the first four wild polio cases in the country in 2014 and all the four cases came from North Waziristan Agency (NWA), officials of the provincial health department told The News on Sunday.

According to officials, like previous victims of the poliovirus in the volatile North Waziristan, these four children had not received any dose of oral polio vaccine (OPV) due to ban imposed by local Taliban led by Hafiz Gul Bahadur on polio immunisation as a protest over US drone strikes. Besides North Waziristan, the Taliban in the adjoining South Waziristan had also banned polio vaccination and vowed to continue this ban till drone strikes are stopped there...

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Re: Pakistan: 2014 Polio cases- 3 more anti-polio workers murdered

Source: http://www.pakistantribune.com.pk/94...d-karachi.html

Two Female Polio Workers Among three Killed in Karachi
Posted by: Ahmad Naveed Zafar January 21, 2014

Karachi: At least three people ? including two female polio workers ? were killed and two others injured in a gun attack in Karachi on Tuesday.

According to police, the incident occurred in Qayummabad area where three motorcycle-board gunmen opened fire on a polio team as soon as it arrived the locality. Resultantly four polio workers were injured, three of whom succumbed to their wounds on the way to hospital...

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Re: Pakistan: 2014 Polio cases- 7 die in security van boming

Source: http://mwcnews.net/news/centrals-asi...ce-patrol.html

Bomb hits Pakistan police patrol
Wednesday, 22 January 2014 12:25
By MWC News

At least seven people, including one child, have been killed and 11 injured in a bomb attack near a police van in the country's restive northwest province, officials have said.

The van, which was in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province's Charsadda district, was being used to provide security for a polio vaccination drive.

Senior police official Saeed Wazir said Wednesday's bomb, weighing 4-5kg, was planted on a bicycle.At least six police personnel were killed in the blast near Sardheri bazaar...

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Re: Pakistan: 2014 Polio cases- 1st case detected in Peshawar

Source: http://www.dawn.com/news/1082205/chi...or-polio-virus


Child in Peshawar tests positive for polio virus
Zahir Shah Sherazi
Updated 2014-01-23 23:28:44

PESHAWAR: Polio virus has been detected in an 11-month old girl child in Khyber Pakhtunkhawa's provincial capital, the first polio case in the city for 2014.

The EPI Programme KP in-charge Dr Janbaz Afridi told Dawn.Com that the polio virus has been confirmed in an 11-month-old child in Dehri Bagbanan area, which is located on the outskirts of Peshawar.

The officials confirmed that the child had been administered polio drops but had missed some drives, thus testing positive for the virus...

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Re: Pakistan: 2014 Polio cases- 1st case detected in Peshawar

Source: http://tribune.com.pk/story/662696/a...ed-with-polio/


Another case: 11-month-old in Peshawar diagnosed with polio
By Our Correspondent
Published: January 24, 2014

PESHAWAR:

Yet another child has been diagnosed with polio. According to the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) health department official, 11-month-old Shaista, a resident of Surezai, Peshawar, has been infected with the crippling disease.

Shaista had not received a single dose of the oral polio vaccine. However, this incidence of the disease does not add to the toll for 2014 as the onset of paralysis occurred on December 31, 2013. After Shaista?s case, the total number of polio cases from 2013 has increased to 92...

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Re: Pakistan: 2014 Polio cases- 1st case detected in Peshawar

Source: http://www.voanews.com/content/anti-...s/1839515.html


Anti-Polio Drive in Peshawar, Pakistan Falters
Kokab Farshori

January 28, 2014
WASHINGTON ? The war on Polio is in danger of being lost in Pakistan, and in a dramatic development a new strain of Polio has been identified in a part of the country where eradication efforts against the crippling disease are most at risk because of attacks against vaccinators.

Pakistan is one of only three countries, along with Afghanistan and Nigeria where polio remains endemic and while eradication efforts are making progress in Afghanistan and Nigeria they are faltering in Pakistan, the only country in the world where polio case rose from 2012 to 2013.

Dr. Sarfraz Khan Afridi, a WHO official based in Peshawar, the capital city of Pakistan?s restive Khyber Pakhtunkhaw province in the northwest of the country, told VOA?s Deewa Radio that 91 cases of polio were reported in 2013, up from 58 in 2012...

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Re: Pakistan: 2014 Polio cases- 1st case detected in Peshawar

Polio Case Count of year 2014: 7 cases all from N Waziristan, FATA
via Prime Minister's Monitoring & Coordination Cell for Polio 2/2/14 1:02pm EST

https://www.facebook.com/PrimeMinistersMonitoringCoordinationCellForPolio

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Re: Pakistan: 2014 Polio cases- 9th case reported

Source: http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2014...ported-in-nwa/


Another polio case reported in NWA
5 hours ago BY Jaan Haider

Another polio case was reported in North Waziristan Agency (NWA) on Saturday taking total toll to nine.
The Health Department said that 16-month-old Umer Gul from tehsil Miranshah was found affected with poliovirus.
Since January 1, nine polio cases have been reported across the country and all affected children belong to NWA...

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Source: http://tribune.com.pk/story/669642/n...th-waziristan/


Poliovirus: Ninth case reported in North Waziristan
By Our Correspondent
Published: February 10, 2014

This brings total number of polio cases to nine in 2014, all from same agency of tribal belt.
PESHAWAR:

The National Institute of Health in Islamabad confirmed a new wild poliovirus (type-1) case on Sunday from North Waziristan.

The latest victim of the crippling disease is a 16-month-old boy Umer Gul, son of Bobrai, a resident of Mizer, Miranshah tehsil. Parents of all nine children afflicted with the disease have confirmed that none of the minors had received any polio vaccination.

This brings the total number of polio cases to nine in 2014, all from the same agency of the tribal belt. Five of the cases were confirmed from Miranshah tehsil and the remaining four from Mirali...

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Re: Pakistan: 2014 Polio cases- 9th case reported

Source: http://tribune.com.pk/story/669842/p...-agency-blast/


Polio team security officers injured in Khyber Agency blast
By Web Desk
Published: February 10, 2014

KHYBER AGENCY: Two officers providing security to a polio team were injured in an explosion in Khyber Agency, Express News reported on Monday.

The incident took place near the Shalman Road.

Three officers were on duty providing security to the vaccination team when a roadside bomb exploded and injured two of them...

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Re: Pakistan: 2014 Polio cases-another polio team attacked; policeman murdered

Source: http://thefrontierpost.com/article/7...iceman-killed/

Polio team attacked in D I Khan; policeman killed
Posted on 2014-02-11 15:18:49

MONITORING DESK PESHAWAR: A policeman was killed and another was injured when a polio immunisation team was attacked in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Dera Ismail Khan district on Tuesday.

The two policemen were assigned to provide security to the vaccination team working in D I Khan's Purwa tehsil....

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Re: Pakistan: 2014 Polio cases-another polio team attacked; policeman murdered; 10th case reported

Source: http://tribune.com.pk/story/670031/1...case-reported/


North Waziristan: 10th polio case reported
By Our Correspondent
Published: February 11, 2014

PESHAWAR: The National Institute of Health in Islamabad confirmed another wild poliovirus (type-1) case on Monday from North Waziristan Agency which brings the total number of cases in 2014 to 10.

The latest victim of the crippling disease is Hilal, 12-month-old daughter of Sadaullah who is a resident of Datta Khel in Miranshah. It is said all children who have been diagnosed with polio in the current year did not receive a single dose of the oral polio vaccine...