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Polio fears spook Jharkhand village parents
Tests under way to find how limbs of 18-month old were hit by Acute Flaccid Paralysis
Sitting on a wooden bench outside the Primary Health Centre (PHC) here, Nagiya Devi tried to pacify her infant. Her husband Mangal Lohra, a construction worker in Punjab, clutched a small plastic bottle and medicines and eyed anxiously a blue plastic icebox placed by his side...
?...The child has not passed stools since Saturday and we have not been able to send a sample to Kolkata to test for polio. Once we send a sample, we can confirm in three weeks whether the cause for the Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) is polio or some other cause,? said Arif Hussain, the Latehar District Monitor with the World Health Organisation. He reached the PHC on Monday to collect details of the case...
Polio fears spook Jharkhand village parents
Tests under way to find how limbs of 18-month old were hit by Acute Flaccid Paralysis
Sitting on a wooden bench outside the Primary Health Centre (PHC) here, Nagiya Devi tried to pacify her infant. Her husband Mangal Lohra, a construction worker in Punjab, clutched a small plastic bottle and medicines and eyed anxiously a blue plastic icebox placed by his side...
?...The child has not passed stools since Saturday and we have not been able to send a sample to Kolkata to test for polio. Once we send a sample, we can confirm in three weeks whether the cause for the Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) is polio or some other cause,? said Arif Hussain, the Latehar District Monitor with the World Health Organisation. He reached the PHC on Monday to collect details of the case...