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    Re: Pakistan: 2011 Polio cases

    Source: http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011...in-rawalpindi/

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    ISLAMABAD - While asking for revamping the polio eradication strategy in Islamabad, the Prime Minister?s Focal Person on Polio, Shahnaz Wazir Ali, said Friday that the water samples collected recently from Rawalpindi had shown presence of polio virus which a potential risk for the Islamabad residents since there were geographically close to the garrison city...

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    • #47
      Re: Pakistan: 2011 Polio cases

      Source: http://www.dawn.com/2011/12/31/polio...appears-2.html

      Polio scare reappears
      Imran Ali Teepu | National | From the Newspaper
      Last updated: 56 mins ago

      ISLAMABAD: Is polio rearing its head in Islamabad territory again after having been ?eradicated? three years ago?

      Prime Minister?s Special Assistant and Focal Person on Polio Eradication Shahnaz Wazir Ali has warned that the city is at risk because water samples collected from neighbouring Rawalpindi have shown presence of polio virus.

      Though Islamabad has not had a case for the last three years, the city can have a case anytime with large influx of mobile population emigrating from areas that are polio affected,? she told a meeting with city and WHO officials called on Friday to consider the situation.

      Dawn has learnt that the Polio Virology Laboratory at the National Institute of Health is already investigating several cases of acute paralysis reported from Islamabad and other places in the country.

      According to sources in the health sector ?the laboratory is probing whether the children who are paralysed were affected from the polio virus or not?...

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