Five more children - three from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and two from Sindh - have tested positive for
poliovirus despite the positive efforts of the government of Pakistan.
He said the government had a firm resolve to defeat
poliovirus transmission in the country through optimum utilization of this low transmission season.
The official said the extensive environmental surveillance established by the Pakistan Polio Eradication Programme had detected the
poliovirus from the sewage of 10 cities during last month.
The Department of Health (DOH) has reminded parents to complete the vaccination of their children, particularly against
poliovirus, as the Philippines is in danger of losing its 19-year-old polio-free status due to the recent drop in oral polio vaccine (OPV) coverage.
ISLAMABAD -- Environmental samples from Rawalpindi and Islamabad have tested negative for the
poliovirus, even though the virus becomes more active in high transmission season.
Earlier this week two new cases of
poliovirus had surfaced in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, increasing the total of this year's cases to 26.
The Lagos State Ministry of Health, the World Health Organisation (WHO), United States Children Fund (UNICEF), Belinda and Bill Gates Foundation and Rotary International among other organizations have swung into action to interrupt a new
poliovirus outbreak in Lagos State, Nigeria.
ISLAMABAD -- The extensive environmental surveillance established by the Pakistan Polio Eradication Programme has detected the
poliovirus in sewage of twelve cities.
In comparison to oral polio vaccine, inactivated polio vaccine contains no live virus and thus carries no risk of vaccine-derived
poliovirus emergence or vaccine-associated paralytic polio.
According to an official of National Emergency Operations Centre for the Polio Programme, during this special campaign, frontline polio workers will go door to door to ensure children are vaccinated with two drops of vaccine to protect them against the
poliovirus. Since the beginning of the year, six polio cases of wild
poliovirus have been detected in the country, which included cases from Karachi city, Lahore city, and districts like Bajaur, Khyber, Hangu, and Bannu in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, he added.