Sunday, 16 July 2017

PRO/EDR> Poliomyelitis update (19): Afghanistan (KD)

Polio -- Afghanistan
Officials said on Friday [14 Jul 2017] that a new polio case has been detected in a toddler in Southern Afghanistan where the Taliban banned vaccination campaigns.
"The virus has been detected in an 18-month-old baby girl in Shah Walikot district of Kandahar province,'' said Dr Hedayatullah Stanekzai from the national anti-polio initiative in the Health Ministry in Kabul.
He told DPA that this was the 2nd polio case in Kandahar this year [2017] and that it was detected in an area under

Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://bit.ly/2v754ay

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