Seventh polio case surfaces in Karachi

Official says family had refused polio vaccination for the child

KARACHI: Despite aggressive campaign against the crippling disease, a fresh poliovirus case surfaced in Karachi on Tuesday, taking the total to seven in the city, and 12 in the entire Sindh province, health officials said on Tuesday.

Seventeen-month-old son of Hukam Khan, who has contracted the virus, is a resident of the Gulshan-e-Noor area of Gulshan-e-Iqbal town.



Officials say the family is Pashto-speaking, and the child was never vaccinated.

Another official added the family had refused the vaccination, and is the only such case in the city.