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Pakistan: 2014 Polio cases- Cases Rising- 295 cases total yr. to date

Re: Pakistan: 2014 Polio cases- 13th case reported

Re: Pakistan: 2014 Polio cases- 13th case reported

Source: http://www.nation.com.pk/national/19-Feb-2014/four-more-polio-cases-reported-in-fata

Four more polio cases reported in Fata
February 19, 2014

PESHAWAR - Four new polio cases were reported in Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) on Tuesday after which total toll have mounted to 13.
EPI Fata officials said that three children hailing from North Waziristan Agency (NWA) and a girl belonging to Khyber Agency were found affected with polio virus...
 
Re: Pakistan: 2014 Polio cases- Rising- 17th case reported

Re: Pakistan: 2014 Polio cases- Rising- 17th case reported

Source: http://tribune.com.pk/story/673920/two-more-children-fall-victim-to-polio-in-nwa/


Two more children fall victim to polio in NWA
By Our Correspondent
Published: February 20, 2014

PESHAWAR: Two more cases of polio were confirmed from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas on Wednesday pushing the country?s total to 17 this year.

The National Institute of Health confirmed the presence of the virus in 18-month-old Amina, daughter of Mibol and resident of Toor Tangai in Macha Saber Khel village of Miranshah tehsil, North Waziristan Agency (NWA).

The second child infected by the crippling disease is 11-month-old Asma, daughter of Saifur Rehman and a resident of Spalga in Shogai Tori Khel village, also in Miranshah tehsil of NWA.

Both children are infected with wild poliovirus (type-1).

According to a Prime Minister?s Polio Monitoring Cell surveillance report, neither of the two children had received a single dose of the oral polio vaccine...
 
Re: Pakistan: 2014 Polio cases- Cases Rising- 19th case reported

Re: Pakistan: 2014 Polio cases- Cases Rising- 19th case reported

Source: http://thefrontierpost.com/article/77312/Two-more-polio-cases-confirmed-in-North-Waziristan/

Two more polio cases confirmed in North Waziristan
Posted on 2014-02-21 17:23:25

MONITORING DESK ISLAMABAD - Two new cases of polio virus were confirmed in North Waziristan on Friday.

According to laboratory reports, both victims of polio including one and a half year old Fatima and Sadas are the residence of Miranshah. The reports show that both the children never took any single dose of polio vaccination.

According to the national health department report, country has registered 19 cases this year and 17 of them were confirmed in North Waziristan Agency while two others belong to Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa...
 
Re: Pakistan: 2014 Polio cases- Cases Rising- 21st case reported

Re: Pakistan: 2014 Polio cases- Cases Rising- 21st case reported

Source: http://tribune.com.pk/story/674751/new-cases-surface-from-peshawar-nwa/

New cases surface from Peshawar, NWA
By Our Correspondent
Published: February 22, 2014

PESHAWAR: Two new polio cases surfaced on Friday, one each from Peshawar and North Waziristan Agency (NWA), taking the country?s total to 21 this year, in comparison to only three cases reported at the same time last year.

The National Institute of Health, Islamabad confirmed the presence of the virus in 12-month-old Khairmadullah, son of Amirdullah and resident of Mizer village of Khuji Khel in Miranshah tehsil of NWA. The child had not received a single dose of oral polio vaccine.

The second child confirmed to be infected was identified as 18-month-old Shakirullah, son of Zabiullah and resident of Qazi Khel village in union council Khalisa 2, Peshawar.

According to an official associated with the polio eradication campaign, Shakirullah?s stool sample was collected on February 9. ?The virus had infected the child almost two weeks prior to the Sehat ka Insaf immunisation campaign launched by the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government in Peshawar,? he said.

The emergence of four cases in a brief span of two days has raised alarm bells...
 
Re: Pakistan: 2014 Polio cases- Cases Rising- more kidnappings reported

Re: Pakistan: 2014 Polio cases- Cases Rising- more kidnappings reported

Source: http://centralasiaonline.com/en_GB/articles/caii/newsbriefs/2014/02/25/newsbrief-13

Awaran militants kidnap polio worker, 3 Levies personnel
Staff Report
2014-02-25

QUETTA ? An attack on polio workers in Balochistan Province February 24 resulted in the kidnapping of one polio worker and three Levies Force officers providing security, Dawn reported...
 
Re: Pakistan: 2014 Polio cases- Cases Rising- more kidnappings reported

Re: Pakistan: 2014 Polio cases- Cases Rising- more kidnappings reported

Source: http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/201...igners-four-levies-men-recovered-from-awaran/


2 polio campaigners, four Levies men recovered from Awaran
5 hours ago BY MONITORING DESK

AWARAN-

Four abducted Levies personnel and two polio vaccinators were recovered by police here on Wednesday, a private news channel reported.

The Levies men were abducted during an armed attack on the convoy of the Deputy Commissioner of Awaran by the militants...
 
Re: Pakistan: 2014 Polio cases- Cases Rising- another case reported- total 22

Re: Pakistan: 2014 Polio cases- Cases Rising- another case reported- total 22

Source: http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2014/02/26/city/islamabad/polio-is-still-after-you/


Polio is still after you
52 mins ago BY ONLINE

One more polio case reported in NWA: Number reaches 22

Another case of polio surfaced in North Waziristan region of the country, taking the total number of such cases this year to 22.

According to media reports the National Health Institute informed that a polio virus was found in one-and-a-half year old girl, Aaina Gul, resident of Miranshah Tehsil, North Waziristan...
 
Re: Pakistan: 2014 Polio cases- Cases Rising- another case reported- total 22

Re: Pakistan: 2014 Polio cases- Cases Rising- another case reported- total 22

Source: http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-7-235112-Another-polio-case-reported-in-N-Waziristan

Another polio case reported in N Waziristan
Bureau report
Thursday, February 27, 2014
From Print Edition


PESHAWAR: Another wild type1 polio case was reported from the troubled North Waziristan Agency (NWA) on Wednesday.

According officials of the provincial Health Department,? 18-month-old male child, Ayna, son of Anar Gul, was diagnosed with poliovirus.He is the resident of Land Mohammadkhel in Boya Qalla of North Waziristan...
 
Re: Pakistan: 2014 Polio cases- Cases Rising- total 22; attack on polio team murders 12 security members

Re: Pakistan: 2014 Polio cases- Cases Rising- total 22; attack on polio team murders 12 security members

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/militant-ambush-kills-12-polio-workers-escort-pakistan-114956239.html


Militant ambush kills 12 of polio workers escort in Pakistan
Reuters
By Jibran Ahmad 20 minutes ago

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Militants killed 12 members of the security escort for a polio vaccination team in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, detonating a roadside bomb before opening fire on their convoy, according to officials.

The attack lasted an hour and when rescuers approached the scene the gunmen also attacked them, according to Khan Faraz, an official in the Jamrud area of Khyber, a rugged tribal region bordering Afghanistan...
 
Re: Pakistan: 2014 Polio cases- Cases Rising- total 24

Re: Pakistan: 2014 Polio cases- Cases Rising- total 24

Source: http://www.brecorder.com/top-news/1...-concern-over-increasing-number-of-polio.html

Saira expresses concern over increasing number of polio
Tuesday, 04 March 2014 21:04
Posted by Imaduddin

imageISLAMABAD: Health Minister Saira Afzal Tarar on Tuesday expressed concern over increasing number of polio cases in the country especially in FATA and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

The minister expressed these views while chairing a meeting. The meeting was also attended by Ayesha Raza Farooq, PM's focal person on Polio, Secretary MoNHSRC, National Programme Manager, EPI and representatives of partner agencies...

...Officials of the PM Polio Cell while sharing the details of the polio cases appeared during current year apprised the meeting that there are 24 polio cases had been registered including 19 from North Waziristan, one case from Khyber Agency, one from FR Bannu while 3 cases had been reported from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa including 2 from Peshawar and 1 from Bannu.
 
Re: Pakistan: 2014 Polio cases- Cases Rising- total 24

Re: Pakistan: 2014 Polio cases- Cases Rising- total 24

Weekly AFP Surveillance Update
Pakistan
Week 9 (Ended on 01stMarch, 2014)
http://www.emro.who.int/images/stor..._bulletins2014/Week_09_March_03_2014.pdf?ua=1

501 cases of AFP reported to Feb 27th.
361 Non-Polio, 24 WPV, 6 cVDPV2, 110 pending.

Pakistan.webp
 
Re: Pakistan: 2014 Polio cases- Cases Rising- total 27

Re: Pakistan: 2014 Polio cases- Cases Rising- total 27

Source: http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2014/03/08/national/first-polio-case-detected-in-swa/


First polio case detected in SWA
54 mins ago BY Jaan Haider

PESHAWAR

First poliovirus case was surfaced in South Waziristan Agency (SWA) on Saturday.
The National Institute of Health (NIH) said that a six-month-old girl, hailing from Tehsil Bairmal, was found affected with poliovirus.
With this case the number of polio cases since January 1 has reached 27, of which 24 belong to FATA and three to Peshawar...
 
Re: Pakistan: 2014 Polio cases- Cases Rising- total 27; More murders of polio team members

Re: Pakistan: 2014 Polio cases- Cases Rising- total 27; More murders of polio team members

Source: http://www.arabnews.com/news/538341

2 killed in latest attack on Pakistan polio workers
Agence France Presse
Published ? Tuesday 11 March 2014
Last update 11 March 2014 2:26 pm


PESHAWAR, Pakistan: Two policemen guarding a polio vaccination team in northwest Pakistan were were shot dead by armed men on Tuesday, police said, the latest setback to efforts to eradicate the crippling disease...
 
Re: Pakistan: 2014 Polio cases- Cases Rising- total 28

Re: Pakistan: 2014 Polio cases- Cases Rising- total 28

Source: http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2014/03/14/national/two-new-polio-cases-in-karachi-miranshah/


Two new polio cases in Karachi, Miranshah
National
2 hours ago BY NEWS DESK

ISLAMABAD-

Two new cases of Polio virus were reported in Pakistan on Friday.

According to the National Health Department, a two-year-old child was diagnosed with polio virus in Baldia Town of Karachi while another 10-month-old boy was confirmed to have contracted polio in Miranshah of North Waziristan...
 
Re: Pakistan: 2014 Polio cases- Cases Rising- total 28

Re: Pakistan: 2014 Polio cases- Cases Rising- total 28

Source: http://www.nation.com.pk/national/19-Mar-2014/one-more-polio-case-emerges-in-nwa

One more polio case emerges in NWA
March 19, 2014
Online
MIRANSHAH - One more polio case has emerged in North Waziristan. According to a private TV channel blood samples of an 11 month baby girl Sapna belonging to Shewa area of NWA was sent to lab for testing aftr the presence of virus was confirmed...
 
Re: Pakistan: 2014 Polio cases- Cases Rising- six cases in one day

Re: Pakistan: 2014 Polio cases- Cases Rising- six cases in one day

Source: http://tribune.com.pk/story/685454/six-polio-cases-surface-in-a-single-day/


Six polio cases surface in a single day
By Our Correspondent
Published: March 21, 2014
Four victims from North Waziristan had not received inoculation.
PESHAWAR:

Six more polio cases, including four from North Waziristan Agency (NWA) and one each from Peshawar and Bannu, surfaced on Thursday.

The National Institute of Health (NIH) Islamabad has confirmed the cases.

The NIH informed that polio virus wild type1 were diagnosed in 17-month-old Zahid Rehman and 16-month-old Muhammad Rahim from Miramshah tehsil of NWA.

Similarly, seven-month old Sidra and 16-month-old Said Rehman from Mira Ali were diagnosed with the crippling disease. All of these children had not received a single dose of polio vaccine...
 
Re: Pakistan: 2014 Polio cases- Cases Rising- six cases in one day

Re: Pakistan: 2014 Polio cases- Cases Rising- six cases in one day

Source: http://centralasiaonline.com/en_GB/articles/caii/newsbriefs/2014/03/21/newsbrief-11

4 more polio cases reported in N. Waziristan
Staff Report
2014-03-21

MIRANSHAH, Pakistan ? The National Institute of Health (NIH) in Islamabad recently confirmed four new polio cases in restive North Waziristan Agency, Dawn reported March 21.

The infected children ? Zahid Rehman, Sidra Bibi, Said Rehman and Mohammad Rahim ? brought the total number of this year's patients to 33 nationwide...
 
Re: Pakistan: 2014 Polio cases- Cases Rising- virus found in drinking water

Re: Pakistan: 2014 Polio cases- Cases Rising- virus found in drinking water

Source: http://www.nation.com.pk/sp-health/23-Mar-2014/rawalpindi-polio-virus-found-in-drinking-water

Rawalpindi: Polio virus found in drinking water
March 23, 2014, 3:53 pm


Islamabad- Polio virus has been discovered today in the drinking water of Rawalpindi and Islamabad.
The residents and social groups of the city expressed great reservation and anxiety over the revelation of the virus and demanded the government to take precautionary measures to control the spread of the virus...
 
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