Year's second polio case surfaces in Sindh
On the other hand, anti-polio campaign is underway in different parts of Sindh.
KARACHI (Dunya News/ Reuters) – Year’s second polio case has been surfaced in Sindh’s Jacobabad today (Thursday).
According to details, the virus has been found in Jacobabad’s minor however, the health department has still not issued any information regarding the child.
On the other hand, anti-polio campaign is underway in different parts of Sindh to vaccinate polio drops to the children.
Earlier, the virus was tested positive in a 34-months old baby identified as Sher Ali in Karachi.
Polio is a highly infectious disease that invades the nervous system and can cause irreversible paralysis in a matter of hours. A $5.5 billion global eradication plan was launched in April with the aim of vaccinating 250 million children multiple times each year to stop the virus finding new footholds, and stepping up surveillance in more than 70 countries.
It is now endemic in only two countries, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Pakistan’s polio cases are declining, with just 54 cases of polio virus reported last year, down more than 80 percent from 2014, when the country suffered a large spike in cases.
Efforts to eliminate polio in Pakistan have been complicated in recent years, as polio workers have faced attacks by militants who say the health teams are Western spies, or that the vaccines they administer are intended to sterilise children.
In January, a suicide bomber killed at least 15 people outside a polio eradication centre in the restive western city of Quetta, with two militant groups claiming responsibility.
