- Each circumstances contain younger ladies below two years of age.
- 51 of 126 sewage samples take a look at constructive nationwide in August.
- Karachi data half of Sindh’s 24 constructive environmental websites.
ISLAMABAD: The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication on the Nationwide Institute of Well being (NIH), Islamabad, has confirmed two new polio circumstances from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, elevating the nation’s tally for 2025 to 26.
The laboratory stated the newest circumstances contain a 19-month-old lady from Union Council Mir Ali in District North Waziristan and an 11-month-old lady from Union Council Suleman Khel in District Lakki Marwat.
With these detections, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa accounts for 18 of the full reported circumstances this 12 months, adopted by Sindh with six, and one every in Punjab and Gilgit-Baltistan, the regional laboratory added.
Polio is a extremely infectious and incurable illness that may trigger lifelong paralysis. The one efficient safety is thru repeated doses of the Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) for each little one below 5 throughout every marketing campaign, alongside well timed completion of all routine immunisations.
Regardless of important progress, the continued detection of polio circumstances, notably in southern KP, stays a critical concern. It underscores that kids in hard-to-access areas and people with low vaccine acceptance proceed to be in danger.
In the meantime, Pakistan’s polio surveillance system examined 126 environmental samples from 87 districts throughout August. Of those, 75 samples have been declared destructive whereas 51 examined constructive for poliovirus.
Sindh recorded the very best proportion of constructive samples with 24, adopted by Punjab with 14, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa with 10, and one every in Balochistan, Gilgit-Baltistan, and Islamabad. Encouragingly, Balochistan confirmed a marked discount in constructive websites, down from 19 in January to only one in August, the regional laboratory added.
Final month, two new circumstances of poliovirus have been confirmed from south Khyber Pakhtunkhwa — one from district Tank and the opposite from district North Waziristan.
The circumstances included a 16-month-old lady from Union Council Mullazai, District Tank, and a 24-month-old lady from Union Council Miran Shah-3, District North Waziristan.
