Pakistan Polio 2013- 85 cases to date

[Ronan Kelly]

2012 thread - http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=179191

Preventable viral diseases: Boy, 6, dies of measles
By Our CorrespondentsPublished: January 20, 2013
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Polio resurfaces in Sargodha
Polio was diagnosed in a 15-month old girl in Sargodha, making it the first case in the district in six years. She was identified as Tooba, the daughter of an Iqbal Colony resident Khalid Mehmood.
The viral disease was diagnosed when her father brought her to a hospital. Captain (retired) Dr Umar Hayat told The Express Tribune that the child had lost function in both legs and her urinary tract had also been affected.
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http://tribune.com.pk/story/496321/preventable-viral-diseases-boy-6-dies-of-measles/

 

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Source: http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-4-156812-Polio-virus-found-in-sewage-of-three-cities

Polio virus found in sewage of three cities
M. Waqar Bhatti
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
From Print Edition

Karachi

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has confirmed the presence of poliovirus P1 in the sewage of three Pakistani cities - Karachi, Hyderabad and Peshawar.

?Laboratory analysis has confirmed that P1 poliovirus was present in the sewage of Gadap Town in Karachi, Hyderabad and University Town in Peshawar,? a WHO official said on Monday.

The official said the samples were collected earlier this month.He added that the laboratory tests helped identify the areas where the virus was rampant, allowing the authorities to plan extensive polio vaccination campaigns there...

 

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Source: http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/pakistan-s-first-polio-case-in-2013-surfaces-in-karachi-325471

Pakistan's first polio case in 2013 surfaces in Karachi
Press Trust of India | Updated: February 02, 2013 00:44 IST

Karachi: A two-year-old child was diagnosed with polio in this port city, the first such case in Pakistan in 2013.

The child, living Bin Qasim Town, was diagnosed with polio during a visit to a hospital, sources told PTI...

 

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Source: http://tribune.com.pk/story/504621/polio-k-ps-first-case-of-the-year-reported-in-bannu/


The Express Tribune

2:09 AM PST
Polio: K-P?s first case of the year reported in Bannu
By Noorwali Shah
Published: February 8, 2013

PESHAWAR:

Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa?s first polio case of 2013 was confirmed in 13-month- old Muzakar from Bannu district.

The National Institute of Child Health (NICH) in Islamabad confirmed the type-1 polio virus in the boy, who is a resident of Gul Hassan village, union council Amandi. The NICH report said no traces of oral polio vaccine (OPV) were found in the child?s body...

 

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Girl becomes KP?s second polio victim this year
From the Newspaper | Ashfaq Yusufzai | 8 hours ago 0


PESHAWAR, Feb 25: A three-month-old girl from Malakand district on Monday became this year?s second polio case in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Local officials told Dawn that Khais, a resident of Umar Killey Badragai Union Council in Dargai tehsil of Malakand district, had tested positive for polio at National Institute of Health, Islamabad.

They said the tehsil hadn?t reported any polio case for five years. The first polio case of the year in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was reported on Feb 8 as a 13-month-old boy from Bannu district, Muzakar Khan, was diagnosed with polio.
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http://dawn.com/2013/02/26/girl-becomes-kps-second-polio-victim-this-year-2/

 

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Source: http://www.thefrontierpost.com/news/19019/


Fresh case of polio reported in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Posted on 2013-03-01 07:05:34


PESHAWAR: A fresh case of polio has been reported in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, taking this year?s nationwide count of the fresh sufferers of the crippling virus to 4.

According to Chief Secretary Polio Monitoring Cell sources, a two and half year-old child in Salar Kaly village of Mardan district was confirmed to have a polio virus...

 

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Polio: Fifth case of the year reported in Mardan
By Noorwali Shah
Published: March 2, 2013

In 2012, the country registered a total of 58 cases of polio, of those, 14 were registered in the first two months of the year. PHOTO: FILE
PESHAWAR: After the Independent Monitoring Board labeled Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) a ?safe sanctuary? for polio virus ? 40% of all polio cases in the country were recorded there last year ? a new case has been reported in Mardan district.
The crippling virus has paralysed another child for life as the National Institute of Health Islamabad confirmed two and a half year old Huzaifa, a resident of Salar Kallay, has been infected with polio.
This brings the number of polio patients reported in the country in 2013 to five; three of those are in K-P. The first case of 2013 was reported in Karachi, then in Bannu, Malakand, Mian Wali and now the fifth one in Mardan.
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http://tribune.com.pk/story/514564/polio-fifth-case-of-the-year-reported-in-mardan/

 

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Source: http://paktribune.com/news/Polio-worker-assaulted-in-Landikotal-258040.html

Pakistan News Home -> Tribune Corner -> News Details
Polio worker assaulted in Landikotal
07 March, 2013

LANDIKOTAL: Unidentified armed men tortured a polio worker in Landikotal and warned him and others involved in the anti-polio campaign to quit the campaign or be ready to be killed.

Four armed men intercepted a polio team's worker, Adnan Shinwari, in Angoor Bagh area of Peero Khel on Wednesday.

They reportedly tortured the worker and snatched his vaccine kits, and gave him and all other polio workers the last warning to give up polio campaigns or be ready for consequences, Adnan Shinwari told media, describing the four armed persons who, he said, wore masks and were armed with daggers and automatic guns...

 

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Source: http://tribune.com.pk/story/517936/...-by-militants-for-vaccinating-their-children/

Fight against polio: Tribesmen fined by militants for vaccinating their children
By Our Correspondent
Published: March 9, 2013

PESHAWAR:

Families which vaccinated their children against polio in Bara, Khyber Agency, have reportedly been fined and threatened by militants.

Salman Afridi*, a resident of Bachi Nehar in Sipah, Bara, said around 20 families in Speen Qabar and Bachi Nehar, Sipah vaccinated their children against polio.

After the vaccination team left the area on Thursday evening, militants of banned outfit Lashkar-e-Islam (LI) arrived in four vehicles and surrounded the area, said Salman. They then took parents of the immunised children to a ground and trussed them up, he added...

 

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Source: http://www.thenews.com.pk/article-95001-Polio-virus-still-exists-in-Quetta

Polio virus still exists in Quetta
April 02, 2013 - Updated 2127 PKT
From Web Edition

QUETTA: Wild Polio virus type 1 (WPV1) still exists in the provincial capital as samples collected from the city's sewage system suggested persistence of the virus in the environment.

The fresh sewage samples collected by the World Health Organization (WHO) experts on Feb 20 from Sur Put area of Kharotabad, were found positive for the wild polio virus type 1...

 

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From the Prime Minister's Monitoring & Coordination Cell for Polio Facebook Page;
https://www.facebook.com/PrimeMinistersMonitoringCoordinationCellForPolio?ref=stream

Prime Minister's Monitoring & Coordination Cell for Polio
about an hour ago
Total case count of year 2013: Sindh: 2, KPK: 3, Punjab: 1 @abbasnasir59, @FarrukhKPitafi, @Razarumi, @TalatHussain12
Like ? ? @PMsPolioE on Twitter

Prime Minister's Monitoring & Coordination Cell for Polio
about an hour ago
6th Polio case of 2013 confirmed 4m Dadu Sindh in an 1.5 yrs old Suhana d/o Ghulam Mustafa. @abbasnasir59, @FarrukhKPitafi @Razarumi.

 

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Re: Pakistan Polio 2013- 6th case reported; cop killed guarding polio workers

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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/11/w...-guarding-polio-workers-in-pakistan.html?_r=0

Gunman Kills Policeman Guarding Polio Workers in Pakistan
By SALMAN MASOOD
Published: April 10, 2013

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan ? A gunman shot and killed one policeman and wounded another as they were providing security to a team of polio eradication health workers in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, according to government officials...

 

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Source: http://tribune.com.pk/story/535385/polio-team-attacked-police-fight-off-militants/

Polio team attacked: Police fight off militants
By Muhammad Ayub
Published: April 14, 2013

KATLANG:

Yet another polio vaccination team came under attack in the Katlang area of Mardan when suspected militants opened fire at the police van deployed for the security of the teams. Thankfully, there were no casualties.

Assistant Sub-Inspector Musarat Shah said that around 9:00am, he and other police officials were deployed at the Basic Health Unit in the Shero area to provide security to polio vaccination teams, when two militants opened fire on them.

?The men were hiding in a thicket and opened fire,? he said, adding that police returned fired, forcing the attackers to flee.

Shah said that after the incident heavy contingents of police rushed to the area and launched a search operation. However, no one was arrested...

 

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Source: http://www.thefrontierpost.com/article/6167/

Anti-polio workers beaten up in Khanewal
Posted on 2 hours ago


KARACHI: Anti-polio workers came under attack in Khanewal and Karachi on Tuesday, FP News desk reports.

According to reports, polio vaccination team was beaten up in Kabirwala town of Khanewal. The incident took place at Mastpur in Kabirwala...

 

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Source: http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/201...olio-workers-pelted-with-stones-in-nawabshah/

Polio workers pelted with stones in Nawabshah
INP 58 min ago |
NAWABSHAH - Unknown people on Wednesday pelted stones at a polio vaccination team, injuring three workers.

The stone-throwing incident took place at Hayat Marri Village in Nawabshah...

 

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Source: http://dawn.com/2013/04/18/polio-vaccination-team-tortured/

Polio vaccination team tortured
From the Newspaper | Mohammad Asghar | 10 hours ago

RAWALPINDI: A three-member polio vaccination team was tortured by the occupants of a house in Mughalabad who refused to allow them to administer polio vaccine to their children, police said on Wednesday.

R.A Bazar police have arrested three members of the family...

 

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Source: http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-13-22666-One-year-old-girl-diagnosed-with-polio-in-NWA

One-year-old girl diagnosed with polio in NWA
Mushtaq Yusufzai
Saturday, May 04, 2013
From Print Edition

PESHAWAR: After the ban on polio vaccination by local Taliban last year, a one-year girl became the first polio victim of the paralysing disease in the volatile North Waziristan Agency, official sources said.

The ill-fated girl diagnosed with polio was identified as Arifa, daughter of one Qadir...

 

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Weekly AFP Surveillance Update: Pakistan - Week 17 (Ended on 27th April, 2013)

1,129 cases of Acute Flaccid Paralysis of which only 6 were confirmed polio (to April 27th) - Test results are still pending in 115 cases. Many maps, comparisons to previous years etc at link. Worth reading.

 

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Source: http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-7-176720-New-cases-pour-cold-water-on-anti-polio-strategy


Peshawar

New cases pour cold water on anti-polio strategy
Mushtaq Yusufzai
Saturday, May 11, 2013
From Print Edition

PESHAWAR: Two new polio cases reported in a single day from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Federally Administered Tribal Areas have raised questions about the strategy for countering the refusal cases.

The first polio case was reported from a chronically refusing family in Mardan district. Official documents of the National Virology Laboratory (NVI), Islamabad revealed that a seven months old male child from Mardan was diagnosed with the crippling poliomyelitis-1 strain of the poliovirus. His father had refused to allow polio teams to vaccinate his child.

An official of the provincial Health Department, Nauman Khan, said over six polio campaigns were conducted during the last six months in Mardan but the father of the child could not be convinced to get the child vaccinated...

 

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Source: http://centralasiaonline.com/en_GB/articles/caii/newsbriefs/2013/05/11/newsbrief-02

WHO fears Mardan could become polio virus reservoir
By Ashfaq Yusufzai
2013-05-11

PESHAWAR ? The World Health Organisation (WHO) fears that Mardan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), could become a polio virus reservoir like Peshawar and is urging immediate action to curb the disease there, officials said.

"We are extremely concerned over the second polio case from Mardan in 2013," Dr. Jawad Khan at WHO told Central Asia Online. "Mardan is now leading with two cases in the country's total tally of nine cases."

Last year, Mardan suffered four polio cases, second to Peshawar's six, and the emergence of two cases this year has alarmed the KP Health Department, WHO and UNICEF, the doctor said...