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  • Pakistan: 2017 Polio

    Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/news/pakista...161834418.html

    Pakistani city launches new polio campaign after rare strain found
    [Reuters]
    By Gul Yousafzai
    ReutersJan 2, 2017, 3:39 PM

    By Gul Yousafzai

    QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistan began a special five-day polio immunisation campaign in the southwestern city of Quetta on Monday for children under five after a rare strain of the virus was found in sewage samples, officials said.

    Local officials said they had recruited Muslim clerics to promote the immunisations for 400,000 children after past programmes were met with resistance and even violence by extremists.

    "The religious leaders were ... asking the people to give their children anti-polio drops in their sermons in the mosques in rural areas of Baluchistan," said Syed Faisal Ahmed, coordinator of the local Emergency Operation Centre.

    Pakistan is one of just three countries in the world, along with Afghanistan and Nigeria, that have endemic polio, a once-common childhood virus that can cause paralysis or death.

    Last year, Pakistan reported a record low of 19 cases, Ahmed said, with only one of them in Baluchistan province, of which Quetta is the capital.

    The new campaign follows the detection of the rare Type 2 strain of polio in sewage samples taken by the World Health Organization in November, Ahmed said. The WHO reported the findings last week.

    No cases of the Type 2 strain have been reported in humans in Quetta but it has been added to the vaccine as a precaution. The more common type of polio is Type 1, with no human cases of Type 2 reported for more than a decade.

    "We have achieved major goals in combating polio disease, but still we have to strive more to declare Pakistan a polio-free country," Ahmed said.

    Immunisation efforts have in the past been hampered by Islamist militants. Last January, a suicide bomber killed 15 people outside a vaccination centre in Quetta in an attack claimed by the Pakistani Taliban and another militant group, Jundullah...

  • #2
    Source: http://tribune.com.pk/story/1290297/...s-balochistan/


    Fresh poliovirus case surfaces in Balochistan
    By Muhammad Zafar
    Published: January 10, 2017

    QUETTA:
    A new case of the crippling polio virus was confirmed in Balochistan?s Chaman district on Tuesday, said Coordinator Emergency Operation Centre (EOC).

    The virus was confirmed in a four-month-old boy in Mehmoodabad area of Chaman district, Killa Abdullah.

    According to the parents, the child developed constant high fever and constipation with the samples later confirming the disease. The samples had been taken in the last week of December from Chaman, which came positive on Tuesday...

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    Source: http://www.dawn.com/news/1307574/4-m...olio-in-chaman


    4-month-old diagnosed with polio in Chaman
    Syed Ali Shah ? Updated 38 minutes ago

    A four-month-old baby has been diagnosed with poliomyelitis in the city of Chaman in Balochistan.

    An official of the Provincial Emergency Operations Centre (PEOC), which monitors polio cases, told media Tuesday that the results have been confirmed by the National Institute of Health (NIH).

    The official further told media personnel that parents did not have their child routinely vaccinated as they "had misconceptions about repeated vaccinations". d constant high fever and constipation with the samples later confirming the disease. The samples had been taken in the last week of December from Chaman, which came positive on Tuesday...

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    • #3
      Source: http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2017...ges-in-punjab/


      First polio case of 2017 emerges in Punjab
      17 hours ago BY Web Desk

      LAHORE: The first polio case of 2017 has surfaced from Lodhran in Punjab. The affected child is a four-month-old boy.

      Although the child has been immunised four times, he contracted the disease...

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      • #4
        Source: https://arynews.tv/en/suspected-poli...orted-in-thar/


        Suspected Polio case reported in Thar
        By Web Desk
        Posted on March 11, 2017

        NAUKOT: A five-year child has been feared to be infected by the crippling polio virus as a WHO team of doctors will visit the area today to check the child, ARY News reported on Saturday.

        A doctor of the Rural Health Centre Naukot in Thar after checking a child, Gulsher Khoso from Kaloi, found the symptoms of the crippling disease of polio.

        A team of doctors and health experts from WHO will visit Naukot today to check the patient.

        The team will take samples from the child and will conduct various tests to decide whether the child has been infected by the disease...

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        • #5
          Source: http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2017...alth-dept-who/



          New polio case in GB perturbs health dept, WHO
          3 hours ago BY Ghulam Abbas

          After the declaration of Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) as a polio-free region by the government in 2012, a new polio case has been confirmed, stunning the health department and World Health Organisation (WHO) on Sunday.

          The fresh case of crippling polio disease was confirmed in a 14-month-old boy in Diamar district of GB, after a period of six months since the last case was reported and confirmed in 2011 in the area.

          An official source at the GB health department told Pakistan Today, requesting anonymity, that National Institute of Health Islamabad (NIH) has confirmed polio case in Nisar Ahmed, son of Haji Shah, a resident of Thor valley of district Diamar.

          According to him, the 14-year-old boy was paralysed and subsequently admitted to a government hospital for treatment. His reports and sample were later sent to NIH for confirmation four months ago. The NIH, after the break of four months, had informed the GB health department that the boy was indeed infected with polio disease...

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          • #6
            Source: https://tribune.com.pk/story/1356069...ccination-g-b/


            Infant contracts polio virus in spite of vaccination in G-B
            By Shabbir Mir
            Published: March 15, 2017

            GILGIT:
            A toddler in Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) who was had received at least two routine doses of the polio vaccine has contracted the disease, according to medical experts and patient?s family on Wednesday.

            The 14-month-old boy resides in Thore Valley in Diamer District, which happens to be one of the most underdeveloped valleys in the region.

            News surfaced after the child suffered paralysis in his arm and lower body...

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            • #7
              Source: https://tribune.com.pk/story/1418160...ot-dead-bannu/

              Polio vaccination supervisor shot dead in Bannu
              By Our Correspondent
              Published: May 24, 2017

              BANNU:
              A polio vaccination drive supervisor was gunned down in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa?s (K-P) Bannu district on Wednesday.

              ?Supervisor Raif Khan was standing outside a mobile shop when two men riding a motorcycle opened fire on him,? a senior officer of the Cantonment Police Station told The Express Tribune.

              Residents rushed Khan to a nearby hospital where doctors pronounced him dead on arrival...

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              • #8
                Source: http://www.dnaindia.com/world/report...kistan-2490298

                Polio worker gunned down in Pakistan
                Sun, 2 Jul 2017-09:57pm , PTI

                A polio worker has been gunned down by two unidentified men in a northwestern province of Pakistan where the crippling disease remains endemic. Sohail Ahmed, a technician of the Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI), was shot by motorbike riders armed with assault rifles yesterday while he was returning to his base from an outreach campaign in Swabi district, police said today.

                The attackers managed to flee after committing the crime, The Express Tribune reported...

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                • #9
                  Source: https://tribune.com.pk/story/1464955...unt-islamabad/


                  The Express Tribune > Pakistan
                  Polio virus threat continues to haunt Islamabad
                  By Asma Ghani
                  Published: July 24, 2017

                  ISLAMABAD:
                  Persistent presence of polio virus in high risk areas and suboptimal coverage during anti-polio vaccination drives in Islamabad that should be a role model for other cities has become one of the remaining hurdles for a polio free Pakistan.

                  At this point Islamabad-Rawalpindi is the second hot spot after Quetta block where targets are not being consistently met.

                  The results of a recently held vaccination drive against polio show that Rawalpindi and rural areas of Islamabad managed by Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) administration have performed better while urban areas that comes under the Capital Development Authority (CDA) has not been able to produce optimal coverage results...

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                  • #10
                    Source: https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/201...es-in-karachi/

                    Polio case emerges in Karachi
                    Karachi
                    3 hours ago BY News Desk

                    A seven-month old baby, belonging to an Afghan family residing in Gulshan-e-Iqbal area of the city, has contracted the polio virus. The child belongs to an Afghan family hailing from Tora Bora. This is a first polio case in Karachi since January 2016...

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                    • #11
                      Source: https://www.geo.tv/latest/159127-two-year-old


                      Thursday Sep 21 2017
                      Sheeba Haider
                      Two-year-old contracts polio in KP in year's fifth case

                      PESHAWAR: A two-year-old girl, identified as Taj Zai, is reported to have contracted the poliovirus in Lakki Marwat, health officials revealed on Thursday.

                      This becomes the fifth reported case of polio in the country this year and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa's first. Last year saw KP registering eight polio cases.

                      At present, an anti-polio vaccination campaign is under way in the province.
                      Fata completes one year without a single polio case

                      Polio cases have been on a decline in the country with 54 and 20 cases reported in the years 2015 and 2016 respectively, as opposed to 306 cases in 2014...

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                      • #12
                        Source: https://www.geo.tv/latest/170946-sec...med-in-karachi

                        Second polio case in three months confirmed in Karachi
                        Wednesday Dec 06 2017

                        KARACHI: The city witnessed its second case of polio within a span of three months, the latest victim being a five-month-old infant who has been diagnosed with the virus.

                        Five-month-old boy Zaibullah, son of Ghulam Sakhi, a resident of UC-4 Gadap Town, had been administered with anti-polio drops during a past campaign. However, his routine immunisation had not been completed, officials said.

                        Just over three months ago, the metropolis reported its first polio case after staying polio-free for 18 months ? an alarming recurrence despite the efforts that were being made to eradicate the crippling disease from the country.

                        Seven-month-old Qasim, a resident of Village Sher Khan/Madina Colony in UC 13 Gulshan, was confirmed as the victim of polio in September. The infant?s grandfather had reportedly refused the administration of polio drops at Qasim?s birth.

                        In all, six cases of polio have been reported in the country this year...

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                        • #13
                          Source: https://tribune.com.pk/story/1587325...s-balochistan/

                          New polio case emerges in Balochistan
                          By Mohammad Zafar
                          Published: December 19, 2017


                          QUETTA:
                          A new polio case was reported in the Gulistan area of Killa Abdullah district where a 16-month-old child was diagnosed with polio virus, pushing the total number of cases to three this year in Balochistan and eight across the country.

                          According to health department officials, parents of the 16-month-old child had refused to get their child vaccinated against the disease when the polio workers visited their house during the campaign.

                          ?A total of 3,000 parents refused to get their children vaccinated in Balochistan particularly in Pishin, Killa Abdullah and Quetta causing a major hurdle in combating the virus,? health officials said and added that the 16-month child will remain paralysed due to his parents...

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