Pakistan: 2011 Polio cases

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Source: http://www.dawn.com/2011/03/01/three-polio-cases-detected.html


Last updated: 8 mins ago
Three polio cases detected
By Imran Ali Teepu | From the Newspaper

ISLAMABAD: Three new cases of polio have been found in Fata.

Although 2011 has been declared by the president as the ‘Emergency Year for Polio Eradication’, reports suggest a somewhat worsening of the situation in the first two months of the year, compared to the same period last year.

With the three fresh cases in Fata, the number of people found afflicted with the disease stood at 11...

 

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Source: http://www.thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=33817&Cat=2&dt=3/2/2011

New polio cases in Pakistan worry donors

By Mushtaq Yusufzai
Wednesday, March 02, 2011

PESHAWAR: The KP government and international donor agencies are seriously worried about the growing number of polio cases in the province and adjoining tribal areas where militancy and poor performance on the part of health workers are hindering eradication of the disease.

The government on October 4, 2010 had declared 2011 as polio free Pakistan, but it is a painful fact for the government and its health managers that instead of controlling the crippling virus, 11 more cases had been detected in just two months, January and February.

Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) in collaboration with the World Health Organisation (WHO) and Unicef on Monday organised a workshop for members of the media to seek their assistance in highlighting the issue and creating awareness among the masses about the disease...

 

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Source: http://www.thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=37380&Cat=4&dt=3/22/2011

Two more polio cases reported in Sindh
M. Waqar Bhatti
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Karachi

Two new cases of polio have been detected in Sindh, taking the total number of such cases to five in the province and 20 in the entire country, officials said.

In a rare case, a 17-year-old youngster in Tando Muhammad Khan has been found suffering from the disease.

Besides, a one-year-old girl in District Badin has also been diagnosed with polio virus despite the fact that she has received six routine and three supplementary doses, officials in the Expanded Programme on Immunisation told The News on Monday.

The fresh polio cases in the country have been reported at a time when the first national immunisation campaign has concluded less than a couple of weeks back, from March 7-10 and authorities claimed to cover 95 per cent areas of each union council in the country.

Polio virus of type-A was detected in a one-year-old girl Noor Bano, daughter of Ali Hasan, a resident of District Badin, Mazhar Khamisani, the EPI Sindh Director said.

He said that the child’s vaccination status was three + six that means she received 12 doses of the vaccine last year while she was found infected with P-1 type virus.

On the other hand, a 17-year-boy was also found suffering from polio in Tando Muhammad Khan and initial investigation revealed that he never had routine polio vaccination in his entire life...

...It is worth mentioning here that last week, one-year-old Ayaz, son of Muhammad Hayat of the same area, Tando Muhammad Khan was confirmed as the third polio victim in the province.

National EPI officials further confirmed to The News that two more cases of polio were also detected in Peshawar and Nowshera in Khyber Pakhtunkhawa, making the total number of polio victims in the entire country so far to 20...

 

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Source: http://tribune.com.pk/story/136310/polio-eradication-pakistan-wont-meet-2011-deadline/

The Express Tribune
Polio eradication: ?Pakistan won?t meet 2011 deadline?
Published: March 22, 2011

KARACHI:

The government?s goal to eradicate polio from Pakistan by the end of this year under the national emergency plan is ?impossible to meet?, said the chairperson for the polio plus campaign for Rotary International, Robert S Scott.

Speaking at a seminar titled ?eradicate polio now? organised by Dr Essa Laboratory on Monday, Scott said the deadline was unrealistic as up to 30 per cent of children are still not being administered the vaccine. On the other hand, he said a rise to 67 per cent in routine immunisations by Rotrary members was encouraging...

 

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Source: http://www.allvoices.com/contribute...es-find-out-in-khyber-pukhtoon-khawa-province

15 polio cases find out in Khyber Pukhtoon Khawa province
Peshawar : Pakistan | Apr 03, 2011
By musarrat ullah jan

Peshawar 4 April 2011, Health ministry confirmed the 24 new polio cases in though out the Pakistan. According to the official report one new case registered of polio in F.R Lakki Marwat area Union council Khajoore..

...Health official confirmed that in Sindh, Punjab and Baluchistan provinces polio registered cases are 9 and other side only in kpk 15 cases registered...

 

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Ten polio cases in four months: Dr. Sagheer
OnePakistanNews 7 hours 4 minutes ago

Karachi, Sindh Minister for Health Dr. Sagheer Ahmed has expressed his concern about increasing cases of polio in the province.

He said that 27 cases of polio were registered last year, while 10 cases have already been registered in the province in last four months. He was addressing to the concluding ceremony of two-day national seminar on Sunday at local hotel, organized by Trust for Vaccines and Immunization (TVI). Minister also expressed his concern about increasing mortality ratio of children
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http://www.onepakistan.com/news/local/karachi/97678-ten-polio-cases-in-four-months-dr-sagheer.html

 

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Polio cases in Pakistan worry global agencies
Irish Sun
Sunday 15th May, 2011
(IANS)



With 37 polio cases reported so far this year in Pakistan, Unicef and the World Health Organisation (WHO) are a worried lot. The two institutions have stepped up efforts to determine how the disease could finally be eradicated.

Unicef and WHO are working closely with Pakistan's federal and provincial governments with the common aim of vaccinating every child in the country against polio in a bid to eradicate the highly contagious virus forever by 2012, Unicef said.

The 37 cases reported so far this year is far greater compared to 18 in the same period last year, Xinhua reported.

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http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/782745/cs/1/

 

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Another polio case detected in city
By Our Staff Reporter | From the Newspaper
(12 hours ago) Today

KARACHI, May 28: Another polio case has been detected in Karachi, raising the total number of polio cases in Sindh this year to 12.

Six-month-old Ehsan is the son of Ubaidullah, a resident of union council-9, SITE Town, who has recently migrated to Karachi with his family from Waziristan.

Speaking to Dawn, Dr Mazhar Khamesani, EPI, Sindh, said that it was the fourth polio case in Karachi this year.

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http://www.dawn.com/2011/05/29/another-polio-case-detected-in-city.html

 

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Source: http://www.geo.tv/6-9-2011/82285.htm

Two new polio cases surface in Peshawar, Bannu
Updated at: 1916 PST, Thursday, June 09, 2011

Two new polio cases surface in Peshawar, Bannu PESHAWAR: Two new cases of polio have been confirmed in Peshawar and Bannu, Geo News reported Thursday.

Deputy Director EPI, Dr. Janbaz talking exclusively to Geo News said a three-year old girl named Hafiza, who is a resident of Qaziabad, was confirmed to have contracted polio virus.

The second case of polio was confirmed in Mir Mast area of Bannu where Talha, a 15-year old infant, was found affected by the contagious disease.

Dr. Janbaz said so far three cases of polio had been reported in Peshawar during 2011.

He said a three-day polio campaign would be undertaken in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa from June 13.

 

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Another polio case in Torghar
Source: The Dawn
Date: 19 June 2011
A new case of polio has been detected in Torghar, bringing the total number of cases to three in the
district, officials said on Sunday. ?Another suspected polio case has been detected in the Mara Madakhel
area and blood samples have been dispatched for laboratory test,? said Fareed Khan, the district
coordination officer, Torghar, while talking to reporters here on Sunday.
http://saarc-sdmc.nic.in/pdf/saarc_news/news193.pdf

 

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First polio case reported in Bannu
From the Newspaper
(56 minutes ago) Today
BANNU, June 23: The first case of polio has been reported in Bannu district, making it further difficult for government to achieve its target of eradicating the crippling disease from the country by the end of 2011.

Confirming the polio case, District Health Officer Dr Naik Nawaz Khan told a meeting here on Thursday that prominent religious scholars had removed reservations of local people about anti-polio vaccine.

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http://www.dawn.com/2011/06/24/first-polio-case-reported-in-bannu.html

 

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Source: http://centralasiaonline.com/cocoon...riefs/caii/newsbriefs/2011/06/24/newsbrief-03

KP polio cases reach 8

By Zahir Shah
2011-06-24

PESHAWAR ? With the latest polio virus case in Bannu District, the total number of polio cases in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) has reached eight, according to health officials.

Dr. Naik Nawaz Khan, District Health Officer, confirmed the province?s eighth polio case. Certain elements are propagandising against polio vaccinations, but health authorities, religious clerics and sermon leaders have launched a campaign to encourage parents to vaccinate their children, he said.

KP health officials have expressed concern their province is at high risk for polio because of the rapid transmission of the wild-type virus in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). FATA has seen 18 of the 52 cases reported nationwide this year, according to the National Institute of Health (NIH) Islamabad.

Balochistan has 13 cases. Sindh has 12, KP 8, Gilgit-Baltistan 1 and Punjab none, according to the NIH.

The government launched an Emergency Action Plan for polio eradication in January. The plan aims to control polio in FATA, KP and elsewhere by mid-2011 and to halt transmission of the wild-type virus by the end of 2011.

 

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9 polio cases surface in Balochistan

PASHIN: Deputy Commissioner Abdul Masood Kakar has said that polio is a dangerous disease; measures have been taken for its cure.

He was talking to the media in his office on Friday.

He told that nine cases of polio have been observed in Pashin and Qila Abdullah, it is the top most responsibility of government to end polio in these areas, the areas where polio teams have not reached should contact the concerned authorities.

The masses should stand with government for fighting this lethal disease.

Officers of various departments were also present on this occasion. - Online

http://www.statesman.com.pk/national/national1.htm

 

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Source: http://www.thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=54496&Cat=4&dt=6/26/2011

briefs..
Sunday, June 26, 2011

Another polio case confirmed in Sindh

By our correspondent

Karachi

Another polio case has been confirmed in Sindh. Four-year-old Asia, daughter of Pyaro, of Mehar Khaskheli village in Sehwan Taluka, Jamshoro, was confirmed as polio positive on Saturday. Expanded Programme on Immunization Sindh officials confirmed that the girl, who had three routine and 10 additional dozes of polio vaccine, was infected with the polio P1 type virus. With the confirmation of the latest polio case in Sindh, the number of total confirmed polio cases in the province had risen to 13 and to 53 in Pakistan, they said.

 

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Source: http://gantdaily.com/2011/06/27/more-polio-cases-despite-efforts-to-contain-it/

More polio cases despite efforts to contain it

June 27, 2011 at 4:45 AM by AHN ?

Islamabad, Pakistan (IRIN) ? Confirmation that a two-year-old has polio in Diamer District of Gilgit-Baltistan region, northern Pakistan, has raised fears that the disease could have spread to areas previously believed to be free of it, despite a national polio emergency plan launched by the government in January.

The World Health Organization (WHO) recently confirmed the case: ?This is the first polio case reported from Gilgit Baltistan after over 12 years. The last case was also reported from the same district, Diamer, in 1998,? WHO spokesperson Gul Afridi told IRIN.

Since Diamer District is outside the zones previously thought to be affected by the virus, WHO has immediately initiated a number of aggressive vaccination measures to help ?stop the polio virus circulation in the area, limiting further spread to neighboring areas?.

The affected child, Afridi said, was a female from a family originally from Mohmand Agency in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas along the Pakistan-Afghan border, but who settled in Gilgit Baltistan four years ago. ?The child reportedly missed the OPV [Oral Polio Vaccine] dose due to the refusal of the family,? he added...

 

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Another polio case detected in Khuzdar Updated 8 hours ago

QUETTA: The Health Department team has detected another polio case in Khuzdar district.

"A child identified as Salman Mengal son of Abdul Sabboor Mengal was found suffering from polio virus," Health Department officials told reporters on Thursday.

The tests of the affected child were dispatched to Islamabad laboratory which has given positive results, they said. (APP)
http://thenews.com.pk/NewsDetail.aspx?ID=17861

 

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Source: http://www.thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=55938&Cat=4&dt=7/5/2011

Another polio case detected in Sindh
our correspondent
Tuesday, July 05, 2011

Karachi

The number of children suffering from polio in Sindh has reached 14 with the confirmation of another child being struck by the crippling disease in the Thatta district on Monday.

He was tested positive for the dreaded disease, EPI officials told The News.

The latest polio case has been detected in Taluka Mirpur Sakro, Thatta, where Zulekha, five, daughter of Muhammad Ishaque, has been tested positive for the polio virus.

According to officials, the unfortunate child contracted the virus despite the fact that her routine immunisation was complete as she had received three regular and four additional doses of the anti-polio vaccine...

 

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Poliomyelitis in Pakistan

7 July 2011 - Pakistan has reported wild poliovirus type 3 (WPV3) isolated from a 16-month old child with onset of paralysis on 9 June 2011, from a conflict-affected, inaccessible area of Khyber Agency, Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). This is the only case of WPV3 detected in Asia in 2011. WPV3 transmission in Asia is on the verge of elimination, with the last case occurring more than six months ago, on 18 November 2010 (also from Khyber Agency, FATA).

Confirmation of continuation of WPV3 transmission in tribal areas of Pakistan has significant implications for the global effort to eradicate WPV3, particularly as Asia is on the verge of eliminating circulation of this strain. The detection of WPV3 in Pakistan represents the risk that it may spread from this transmission focus to other WPV3-free areas of Asia and beyond. Globally, WPV3 transmission is at historically low levels in 2011, with other circulation of this strain restricted to parts of west Africa (17 cases in Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Mali and Niger), Nigeria (five cases) and Chad (three cases). The risk of onward spread of WPV3 is deemed as high by the World Health Organization (WHO), particularly given large-scale population movements within Pakistan, between Pakistan and Afghanistan, and expected large-scale population movements associated with Umrah and the upcoming Hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) in the coming few months.

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http://www.who.int/csr/don/2011_07_07/en/index.html

 

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Spreading disease: Another polio case detected in Balochistan
By Shehzad Balcoh
Published: July 8, 2011

QUETTA:
A one-year-old girl was detected with polio in Quetta, bringing the number of polio cases in Balochistan to 18 this year.

The cases are occuring despite anti-polio drives being launched every month for its control. The child, Hajra Bibi, daughter of Rozi Khan, is a resident of Kharotabad, a suburb of Quetta.

Earlier this year, seven cases were reported in Qila Saifullah, five in Pishin, and two in Khuzdar, while three were reported in Naushki district
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http://tribune.com.pk/story/205007/spreading-disease-another-polio-case-detected-in-balochistan/

 

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22 cases of polio emerge in Balochistan
By PPI
Published: August 8, 2011

QUETTA: Twenty two polio cases have been reported during the past six months in Balochistan.

In 2010, Balochistan had 11 confirmed cases of polio. This indicates an alarming increase, as Pakistan had seen a 62% increase in polio cases last year and is now witnessing an almost a three-fold increase in the current year.

Balochistan currently has the highest number of polio cases in the country with 22 confirmed polio cases so far. Balochistan crossed FATA where 20 cases have been confirmed so far.

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http://tribune.com.pk/story/226770/22-cases-of-polio-emerge-in-balochistan/