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Polio cases: WHO recommends travel restrictions on Pakistan
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KARACHI: The World Health Organisation on Monday recommended strict travel restrictions on Pakistan due to the rising number of polio cases in the country.
The WHO said the spread of polio is an international public health emergency that threatens to infect other countries with the crippling disease.
The public health arm of the United Nations, issuing its new guidelines to fight the disease, recommends Pakistanis traveling abroad should present a polio vaccination certificate.
Pakistani citizens should not be allowed to travel abroad without the document certifying that they have been vaccinated for the virus, recommends the WHO.
The WHO also recommended similar restrictions on Syria and Cameroon ? two other countries where the disease was previously said to have been eradicated but have recently been known to have been exporting the potentially disease.
Pakistan is one of only three countries where the crippling virus is endemic. The other two countries are Nigeria and Afghanistan...
Polio cases: WHO recommends travel restrictions on Pakistan
DAWN.COM
Published about an hour ago
KARACHI: The World Health Organisation on Monday recommended strict travel restrictions on Pakistan due to the rising number of polio cases in the country.
The WHO said the spread of polio is an international public health emergency that threatens to infect other countries with the crippling disease.
The public health arm of the United Nations, issuing its new guidelines to fight the disease, recommends Pakistanis traveling abroad should present a polio vaccination certificate.
Pakistani citizens should not be allowed to travel abroad without the document certifying that they have been vaccinated for the virus, recommends the WHO.
The WHO also recommended similar restrictions on Syria and Cameroon ? two other countries where the disease was previously said to have been eradicated but have recently been known to have been exporting the potentially disease.
Pakistan is one of only three countries where the crippling virus is endemic. The other two countries are Nigeria and Afghanistan...