As per details, two individuals in Karachi were arrested for refusing to vaccinate their children against polio. The suspects, identified as Saad Ashraf and his employee Shan, were apprehended by Nazimabad police. Both have been booked under charges of interfering in state matters. The ongoing campaign marks the final polio vaccination drive of the year, […]
The extension came during the meeting of the Emergency Committee of the WHO held on November 6 regarding the international spread of poliovirus at WHO headquarters, according to a statement. The Emergency Committee reviewed the data on wild poliovirus (WPV1) and circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses (cVDPV). The Secretariat presented a report of progress for affected IHR […]
According to the National Emergency Operations Center (NEOC) for Polio Eradication, the newly reported cases emerged from Dera Ismail Khan, Kemari, and Kashmore. The NEOC confirmed that all affected children tested positive for Wild Polio Virus Type 1. Balochistan leads with 26 polio cases, followed by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa with 16, Sindh with 15, Punjab with […]
According to sources, the National Reference Lab confirmed the cases, which were detected in Dera Ismail Khan’s Tehsil Darazinda, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The new cases include a three-year-old boy and a one-and-a-half-year-old girl, both of whom tested positive for Wild Poliovirus Type 1. Sources revealed that the genetic analysis of the virus is currently underway. So […]
According to NEOC sources, the National Reference Lab identified the latest case involving a 20-month-old girl from the Tank district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Tests confirmed the presence of Wild Poliovirus Type 1 (WPV1). This is the second polio case reported from Tank this year, with a genetic link established to a case from July in […]
The new cases have emerged from Jacobabad, Karachi’s Malir district, and Dera Ismail Khan. In Jacobabad’s Thul tehsil, a 32-month-old girl and an 18-month-old boy were diagnosed with polio, while in Karachi’s Bin Qasim tehsil of Malir district, a 72-month-old boy tested positive for the virus. Meanwhile, in Dera Ismail Khan, a 22-month-old boy was […]
According to sources, three cases were reported from Sindh and one from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The latest cases include a six-year-old child from UC Ibrahim Hyderi in Malir, Karachi. Another case was reported from UC Thul Toshe in Jacobabad, while a 22-month-old child was diagnosed with polio in UC Murga, Dera Ismail Khan. The genetic diagnosis […]
Tests in Jordan confirmed the disease in an unvaccinated 10-month-old from the central Gaza Strip, the health ministry in Ramallah said. According to the United Nations, Gaza, now in its 11th month of war, has not registered a polio case for 25 years, although type 2 poliovirus was detected in samples collected from the territory’s […]
According to sources, the latest case is an 18-month-old child from Qila Abdullah, Balochistan, who tested positive for poliovirus. This is the fifth polio case in 2024 as Pakistan had earlier reported four cases. Pakistan reported six polio cases last year with four from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and two from Karachi. Polio is a highly infectious […]
Pakistan’s Prime Minister PM Imran Khan launched the latest nationwide polio vaccination drive on Monday in Islamabad. The immunization campaign aims to reach over 33 million children under the age of five across the country’s 124 districts. This is the third nationwide anti-virus campaign during the current year. The first two immunization campaigns in January […]
