SLAMABAD: With 40 cases so far this year, poliovirus is still spreading throughout Pakistan.
According to The News on Thursday, which cited the Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health (NIH), Islamabad, the most recent case of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) was reported from Dara Adam Khel tehsil in District Kohat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where a 30-month-old toddler was diagnosed with the illness.
The lab confirmed the second poliovirus case from KP’s Kohat district on Wednesday, October 23. This raises concerns about the disease’s continued spread.
To learn more about the virus’s origins and propagation, the samples taken from the infant are presently being genetically sequenced.
