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The National Center for Emergency Operations (NEOC) on Saturday notified two more cases of polio in the Bajaur tribal district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
According to NEOC, the National Institute of Health isolated wild poliovirus in the stool sample of a three-month-old child, Abdur Rehman, and a seven-year-old girl, Nabila, residing in the village of Jaba Manzai, Council of the Union, Tali, Tehsil Salarzai District Bajaur.
The children were paralyzed with the virus on 29 December 2018 and 31 December 2018 respectively. Stool samples were collected to monitor the presence of poliovirus on 8 January 2019 and 7 January by Abdur Rehman and Nabila respectively.
The wild poliovirus isolated from the stool in the laboratory confirmed that both cases were poliomyelitis cases that had been reported by the CNE each January 19th. Both children received more than seven doses of oral polio vaccine and zero doses of essential / routine vaccines.
Posted in Daily Times, January 21stst 2019.
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