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Pakistan Polio 2013- 85 cases to date

Re: Pakistan Polio 2013- 4 new cases in Fata

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Source: http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-n...2013/four-new-cases-of-polio-detected-in-fata

Four new cases of polio detected in Fata
October 12, 2013
Our Staff Reporter


ISLAMABAD - Four new wild type1 polio cases were reported in a single day from FATA at the National Institute of Health (NIH) laboratory Friday. This has taken the total cases of the country so for to 43...
 
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Weekly
AFP Surveillance Update
Pakistan
Week 40 (Ended on 05th October, 2013)
http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/Week_40_Oct_05_2013.pdf
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3,339 total AFP cases to October 3rd with 39 confirmed wild polio, 30 cVDPV2 2 cases are labeled as "compatible" and 161 cases pending.

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Re: Pakistan Polio 2013- 46 cases to date

Re: Pakistan Polio 2013- 46 cases to date

Source: http://tribune.com.pk/story/619416/officials-struggle-for-answers-after-polio-count-reaches-46/

Officials struggle for answers after polio count reaches 46
By Asad Zia
Published: October 19, 2013

PESHAWAR:

After the total number of polio cases in the province and tribal areas hit 46, Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) and FATA Secretariat officials justified the increase by blaming it on the usual suspects ? law and order and negative propaganda. However, neither department offered much-needed solutions for what amounts to a polio crisis.

The total number of polio cases in Pakistan has reached 46.

Talking to The Express Tribune, EPI Deputy Director Dr Janbaz Afridi claimed the rise in cases could be controlled with a strengthened regular immunisation programme in areas where children remain out of reach. The next drive which would start next week will focus on areas where cases are being reported, explained Afridi.

He claimed, the health department would ensure 100% administration of the polio vaccine...

...FATA

Blaming militancy and the ?ban? on polio inoculations, a senior health department official said not a single child has been reached since 2009 in parts of Bara, Khyber Agency. The ban against polio vaccines was placed in 2012 in North and South Waziristan by Taliban commanders...

...According to the Fata health department official, a total 34 cases of polio have been reported from Fata ? 14 from Khyber Agency, 14 from North Waziristan, 5 from Frontier Region (FR) Bannu and one from FR DI Khan. As Khyber is centrally located, it has an intense circulation of wild polio virus type-1.

Recent reports reveal another type of polio virus has been doing the rounds in North Waziristan, a Sabian-2 like virus which has possibly infected 28 people.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 19th, 2013.
 
Re: Pakistan Polio 2013- 49 cases to date

Re: Pakistan Polio 2013- 49 cases to date

Source: http://tribune.com.pk/story/621727/three-more-polio-cases-confirmed/

Three more polio cases confirmed
By Noorwali Shah
Published: October 24, 2013

PESHAWAR: Ironically, as the country is set to observe the ?World Polio Day? today (Thursday) with the theme ?Stop the Outbreak in Name of Our Children?, three more cases of polio were confirmed on Wednesday.

This would bring the total number of cases in the country to 49 this year.

The National Institute of Health (NIH) in Islamabad on Wednesday confirmed that three more children have been affected by the paralysing virus, including two from Federally Administrated Tribal Areas (Fata) and one from Sheikhupura.

A 15 months old boy from Bara tehsil, Khyber Agency and a 3 years old girl from Pai Khel tehsil, Miramshah, have been affected.

NIH report says both of the children did not receive even a single dose of polio vaccine.

In Punjab, a 12-month boy in Muridke, Sheikhupura district, was found to be carrying the virus. Only one routine dose of the vaccine had been given to him at birth...
 
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h/t ReliefWeb

More polio cases surface in KP, Fata
BUREAU REPORT

Published
2013-10-28 06:57:59

PESHAWAR: The National Institute of Health Islamabad has confirmed four new polio cases, including two from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas and one from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, according to officials.

They said that the fourth victim of polio belonged to a Pakhtun family, currently living in Karachi.

Officials said that Fata had recorded 38 polio cases, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa had seven, Sindh had five and Punjab had recorded three out of the total cases reported in 2013 so far.

According to them, the new cases have brought the nationwide polio count to 53. They said that 58 polio cases were recorded last year in the country. According to the laboratory report, one-year-old Bushra, daughter of Abdullah, a resident of Hindikhel area in Frontier Region of Bannu, has been tested positive for polio. She remained unvaccinated since June 2012. Similarly, one-year-old Tufail, son of Nair Shah, a resident of Mirdadkhel in Khyber Agency, was also diagnosed with polio. He didn?t get oral polio vaccine.
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http://dawn.com/news/1052413/more-polio-cases-surface-in-kp-fata
 
Re: Pakistan Polio 2013- 53 cases to date

Re: Pakistan Polio 2013- 53 cases to date

Source: http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-2-211315-Polio-case-detected-in-Swabi

Polio case detected in Swabi
Thursday, October 31, 2013
From Print Edition

SWABI: A polio case has been reported in the district, official sources said on Wednesday. The victim is two and half year old girl, Nazeefa. The victim girl?s parents belong to Bajaur Agency who had been living in Bamkhel village in Swabi...
 
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Source: http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-7-212074-Two-more-polio-cases-detected


Peshawar

Two more polio cases detected
Bureau report
Monday, November 04, 2013
From Print Edition


PESHAWAR: Two more polio cases were diagnosed on Sunday, reaching the total number of polio cases to 54 in the country this year.

Officials of the provincial health department said one case was reported from Peshawar and the second from North Waziristan. Mohammad son of Sifat, is eight months old male child and was diagnosed with the poliovirus on Sunday.

He is the resident of Bazid Khel union council in Marozai village.The second child is a thirteen-month girl child and belongs to Ali Khel near Zargul Khel village in Mir Ali subdivision of North Waziristan.

She was identified as Alfa, daughter of Ahmed Noor...

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Source: http://tribune.com.pk/story/626726/polio-count-rises-to-56/

Viral threat: Polio count rises to 56
By Our Correspondent
Published: November 4, 2013

PESHAWAR:

Two more cases of polio have surfaced in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) and the tribal areas. With these, the total number of children infected in 2013 rises to 56, just two less than the figure which loomed over the country in 2012.

The National Institute of Health (NIH) Islamabad confirmed the presence of the crippling disease in two more children on Sunday. The NIH report said the children had not been administered oral polio vaccine (OPV).

Muhammad, an eight-month-old resident of union council Bazid Khel in village Marozai, Peshawar district, was among those infected.

The other case was reported from Mir Ali tehsil of North Waziristan. Thirteen-month-old Alfa is a resident of Ali Khel, Zar Gul Khel village...
 
Re: Pakistan Polio 2013- 57 cases to date

Re: Pakistan Polio 2013- 57 cases to date

Source: http://www.brecorder.com/general-news/172/1251571/

North Waziristan termed epicentre of polio disease
November 08, 2013
RECORDER REPORT

Terming North Waziristan area as epicentre of polio disease, senior Paediatricians on Thursday said that out of total 57 polio cases reported this year so far in the country, over 80 percent among them are from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa as against four in Punjab and three in Sindh. Professor Dr Tariq Bhutta, WHO advisor and Professor Dr Tahir Masood, who served as professors and heads of paediatrics in different health institutions, told reporters at a local hotel today that there are many grey areas vis-?-vis polio vaccination.

In North Waziristan in particular and other FATA areas in general, polio drops were not administered among children during the last one and a half year which should be a matter of serious concern for government authorities, they added. The government needs to take immediate steps for vaccination and administration of polio drops among children, they said, adding: "Immunisation is a proven tool for controlling and eliminating life-threatening infectious diseases. It is one of the most cost-effective health investments. Vaccines can protect children by preparing anti-bodies to fight many potentially deadly diseases."...
 
Re: Pakistan Polio 2013- 62 cases to date

Re: Pakistan Polio 2013- 62 cases to date

Source: http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-2-213842-Pakistani-poliovirus-spreads-to-five-countries

Pakistani poliovirus spreads to five countries
Minister says campaign to start from Nov 18
Waseem Abbasi
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
From Print Edition

ISLAMABAD: As reports of Pakistani-origin poliovirus are emerging from Syria, Palestine and Egypt, the country?s top health official says the government is launching emergency measures to curb the spread of virus to other countries.

On Monday three new cases of polio were confirmed by Pakistan taking the total to 62. Last year, the country witnessed 58 cases. According to media reports, Pakistani poliovirus strain has already affected five countries in the past 22 months...
 
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Re: Pakistan Polio 2013- 62 cases to date

Source: http://tribune.com.pk/story/631849/on-the-rise-polio-cases-pass-2012-total/

On the rise: Polio cases pass 2012 total
By AFP
Published: November 14, 2013

ISLAMABAD:

Polio is on the rise in Pakistan, health officials said on Wednesday, as the number of infections in 2013 passed the total for the whole of 2012.

Pakistan is one of the three countries in the world where the highly infectious crippling disease remains endemic.

Opposition from militant groups has hampered efforts to vaccinate children against polio in the country and government officials say that militancy contributes to the increase in polio cases.

?Last year, there were a total of 58 cases but 62 fresh victims of polio have already been reported in 2013,? a senior government official, who works with international donors working to eradicate polio, told AFP...
 
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Re: Pakistan Polio 2013- 62 cases to date

Another polio case surfaces in Khyber Agency

LANDIKOTAL: The number of polio cases in Khyber Agency has reached 16 as another one-year-old child in Landikotal was diagnosed with polio, health sources said on Tuesday.



The sources said Tufail, a resident of Mirdadkhel in Landikotal, was suspected of carrying poliovirus some two months ago and his tests had been sent to Islamabad. They said the boy had been diagnosed with polio.It is the first polio case in Landikotal this year and the 16th in Khyber Agency, In-charge of polio Dr Sher Amin said.



MINGORA: The district administration on Tuesday rescheduled the anti-polio campaign after the Lady Health Workers refused to carry out the drive. Earlier, the district administration had announced the anti-polio drive would start on November 19.



However, Lady Health Workers and Lady Health Visitors refused to participate in the drive, saying that despite the court directives, their services have not been regularised.After their refusal, the administration announced that the vaccination drive would be conducted on November 25.

http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-2-215276-Another-polio-case-surfaces-in-Khyber-Agency
 
Re: Pakistan Polio 2013- 63 cases to date

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Polio campaigners abducted in Pakistan
Kidnapping of 11 teachers in Khyber tribal agency occurs as politician delivers ultimatum on closing NATO supply routes.
Last updated: 23 Nov 2013 09:41

Armed men have kidnapped 11 Pakistani teachers in the country's northwest involved in a polio vaccination campaign for school children, according to officials.

Saturday's incident is the latest in a string of attacks on health workers trying to eradicate the deadly disease.

The teachers were taken from the private Hira Public School in the Bara area of the Khyber tribal agency, one of the semi-autonomous tribal areas along border with the Afghanistan.
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Source: http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2013/11/25/city/karachi/karachi-suspends-anti-polio-campaign/

Karachi suspends anti-polio campaign
ONLINE 6 hrs ago

KARACHI - Polio vaccination campaign was suspended in three districts of Karachi over security concerns on Monday, officials said.

The sources said that the fresh campaign was scheduled to start from Monday but the administration failed to provide proper security to the polio teams following which the campaign was suspended.

Due to the suspension, polio drops will not be administered to children in Gadap Town, a high-risk area from where two new polio cases were reported recently...
 
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Re: Pakistan Polio 2013- 63 cases to date

Source: http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2013\11\27\story_27-11-2013_pg7_2

Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Kidnapped polio workers released
* Released in Tirah valley, the kidnapped workers will reach Peshawar today

PESHAWAR: Militants released on Tuesday 11 teachers who had been kidnapped during a polio vaccination campaign last week, local officials said. The teachers were seized by militants on November 21 from a school in the Khyber Agency. They were abducted just after a team giving polio vaccinations had left the school and the militants may have mistaken them for the polio team, Khyber official Niaz Ahmad Khan said. They were moved to an area controlled by militant leader Mangal Bagh and his Taliban-affiliated group, Lashkar-e-Islam...
 
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Re: Pakistan Polio 2013- 63 cases to date

Source: http://tribune.com.pk/story/638026/mardan-at-high-risk-as-parents-refuse-to-vaccinate-children/

Mardan at high-risk as parents refuse to vaccinate children
By News Desk
Published: November 27, 2013

PESHAWAR:

Mardan is becoming a major threat in terms of polio eradication efforts as parents of 8,495 children refused to administer polio vaccination in November?s immunisation campaign in the district.

Data revealed by the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) health department shows 28,731 refusals from the province in the November campaign...
 
Re: Pakistan Polio 2013- 70 cases to date

Re: Pakistan Polio 2013- 70 cases to date

Source: http://tribune.com.pk/story/638512/four-new-polio-cases-in-fata/

Four new polio cases in FATA
By Our Correspondent
Published: November 28, 2013

Three cases were reported from N Waziristan, one from Khyber Agency.

PESHAWAR: Four new polio cases have been reported in the tribal areas, increasing the total number of cases in the country to 70.

Three of the reported cases were from North Waziristan Agency (NWA) while one case surfaced in Khyber Agency.

The National Institute of Health Islamabad on Thursday confirmed the four new cases in the volatile Federally Administrated Tribal Areas (Fata) which has made the region the highest contributor ? with 48 cases ? to the total number of polio cases from across the country...
 
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Source: http://tribune.com.pk/story/639217/...viding-security-to-polio-workers-in-peshawar/


Police official killed while providing security to polio workers in Peshawar
By Web Desk
Published: November 30, 2013

KARACHI: A police official was killed and another injured when unidentified men fired at them in Peshawar, Express News reported on Saturday.

The police officials were providing security to the Gulshan Rehman team of polio workers administering the vaccine in the area.

Special police force official Zakir Afridi and Yaqoob were standing by the side of the road when the gunmen reportedly targeted them and drove away after firing...
 
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