Pakistan faces an unfortunate blow at the polio front
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*LAHORE – Another polio case has been confirmed in Lahore as polio virus diagnosed in a* *10-year-old child for the first time in history of Punjab.*
The spokesperson confirmed that a 10-year-old child in Lahore’s Allama Iqbal Town has been diagnosed with polio. He also said that this is the second case reported in the province this year. Nine cases have been reported across the country.
“Samples were collected on April 2 and sent to Islamabad for confirmation. The virus belongs to an Outfall Pumping Station in Lahore,” an official at polio laboratory of the National Institute of Health said.
Efforts to eliminate polio in Pakistan have became 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.
