Monday, 15 July 2019

PRO/EDR> Poliomyelitis update (59): Pakistan (KP,PB)

Polio -- Pakistan
Another 4 polio cases surfaced in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab provinces on [Sun 14 Jul 2019], bringing the total number of these cases to 45 this year [2019]. A 6 month old boy from Kala Khel union council of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Bannu district has been diagnosed with polio, according to the National Institute of Health. Anti-polio campaign workers visited the family during immunization campaigns, but the child could not be administered anti-polio vaccine as the parents reportedly hid him

Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6569236&promed&0

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