ISLAMABAD: Wild poliovirus kind 1 (WPV1) has been detected in sewage samples of two districts of Balochistan and one district of Sindh.
The Nationwide Institute of Well being has notified that sewage samples collected from Quetta, Chaman and Hyderabad contained WPV1.
These constructive samples contained virus which is genetically linked to the imported YB3A genetic cluster of WPV1. This cluster disappeared from Pakistan in 2021, remained in circulation in Afghanistan and was reintroduced by means of cross-border transmission final 12 months. All constructive samples and two polio instances reported this 12 months are linked to this virus.
To this point this 12 months, the WPV1 has been present in 38 districts.
In response to an announcement of the Nationwide Institute of Well being, the Pakistan Polio Programme has performed 4 polio vaccination campaigns, together with two nationwide campaigns that lined over 43 million youngsters beneath the age of 5 in January and February.
The following marketing campaign is deliberate within the first week of June.
In Hyderabad, the samples have been collected from Tulsidas Pumping Station. The earlier 5 samples have been additionally discovered constructive from the identical web site.
The Chaman pattern was collected from Military Kaziba web site. It was ninth constructive pattern from Chaman district this 12 months.
A supply within the Nationwide Institute of Well being mentioned that in Quetta, the pattern was collected from Railway Pul web site and it was 18th constructive pattern from Quetta this 12 months.
Revealed in Daybreak, Could twenty third, 2024