KARACHI-
Polio virus had been found in the water samples taken from Lahore and Karachi, a private news channel reported on Tuesday.
According to a report by World Health Organisation (WHO), the sewage water samples collected from Lahore and Karachi were tested positive for the virus.
The samples which tested positive were taken from Lahore’s Main Outfall pumping stations and Karachi’s area of Gadap, Khemso Goth, Machar Colony and Gulshan-e-Iqbal in April.
Samples taken from Peshawar were tested negative for the virus, a surprising fact since it was declared the largest reservoir of endemic poliovirus in the world by WHO this year.
On Monday, two new cases of polio were confirmed in Karachi and North Waziristan Agency.
The total number of discovered polio cases for 2014 in Pakistan now stands at 61, with five being from Sindh, nine from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and 47 from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.