Poliovirus detected in Hyderabad
Polio vaccinators, carrying bag of vaccines and documents to collect data, walk through a neighbourhood in Karachi at the start of a nationwide inoculation drive. Photo: Jalal Qureshi/express
The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at Islamabad's National Institute of Health has confirmed the detection of Type-1 Wild Poliovirus in the stool specimen from a 29-month-old female child from Hyderabad. The child had an onset of paralysis
on August 3.
This is the first polio case from Hyderabad, the third from Sindh province, and the 16th case in Pakistan this year. So far 12 cases have been reported from Balochistan province, three from Sindh province, and one from Punjab province.
The genetic cluster is YB3A4B and the case is 99.22% linked to a virus detected in a sample from the same district.