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Pakistan: Alarm Bells Over Polio Campaign
May 5, 2008
Following the detection of another polio case in the southern Pakistani province of Sindh, this time in the Mirpurkhas area (also prone to malaria), there have been suggestions that the anti-polio drive in the province is facing significant difficulties.
The confirmation by doctors on May 1 that a two-year-old child had tested positive for the polio virus brings to five the number of cases of the disease in Sindh Province in 2008.
Nineteen positive polio cases have been found across Pakistan in the past six months. At the end of April, an 11-year-old girl in Karachi, Sindh’s capital, was diagnosed as having polio.
© 2008 IRIN
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category: News from Other Sources : General Health News
contributed by Liza Nanni on 6 May 2008
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