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A three-year-old boy has been paralysed by wild poliovirus, in the Bannu district of Pakistan’s north-west Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, the Pakistani health ministry said.
The child had an onset of paralysis on Jul 11, and the case was confirmed by the health ministry on Tuesday, the ministry said in a statement.
This is the second polio case this year, with both from Bannu, said the statement.
Endemic wild polio transmission remains restricted to seven districts in the southern part of KP. In other parts of Pakistan, no child has been paralysed by polio since 2021, despite the virus being periodically detected in sewage samples, it added.
Source: Nam News Network