Polio -- Pakistan
Faisalabad has returned to the list of districts affected by poliovirus. One of the reasons seems to be a major decline in the targeting of children in the city.
According to a recent survey, an average of 50% drop in immunisation coverage was reported in Faisalabad where poliovirus has been detected after over 2 years, lamented a senior official while talking to Dawn.
He said that experts believed that the Punjab government's lack of interest towards combating the crippling disease was
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6310406&promed&0
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