Pakistan Today

Four more polio cases surface in country

Four more polio cases surfaced in the country on Saturday, mounting the number of polio cases to 295 this year.

One Polio virus case was detected in a child in Qilla Abdullah in Balochistan, two in Peshawar and one in the Khyber Agency.

The polio cases this year stand at a 15-year high of 295 in Pakistan. The disease, which can kill or paralyze a child within hours of infection, had been eradicated everywhere else, except for Pakistan, Nigeria and Afghanistan.

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