Pakistan records one more poliovirus case; countrywide tally reaches 14

One much lawsuit of poliovirus has been confirmed successful Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, taking the full countrywide tally to 14, officials said.

The caller case, a 19-month-old boy, was reported successful the North Waziristan territory of the province, the Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication astatine the National Institute of Health (NIH) Islamabad said connected Tuesday (July 1, 2025).

With the latest case, the full fig of polio cases successful Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has risen to 8.

Four cases were confirmed successful Sindh and 1 each successful Punjab and Gilgit-Baltistan earlier this year.

Pakistan is 1 of the past 2 countries successful the world, alongside Afghanistan, wherever polio remains endemic. Despite planetary efforts to eradicate the virus, challenges specified arsenic information issues, vaccine hesitancy, and misinformation person slowed progress.

This year, Pakistan has undertaken 3 nationwide polio campaigns truthful acold — successful February, April, and May. Polio eradication efforts successful Pakistan routinely look information issues.

The lawsuit is the 2nd 1 to beryllium confirmed successful Khyber Pakhtunkhwa wrong a week aft an 18-month-old kid from the Union Council Amakhel successful Tank territory was confirmed arsenic the seventh lawsuit connected June 27.

In May, Pakistan launched its 3rd thrust of the twelvemonth against the crippling disease, aiming to vaccinate 45 cardinal children nether the property of five. The authorities has vowed to eradicate polio by the extremity of this year.

Polio is simply a highly infectious and incurable illness that tin origin lifelong paralysis. The lone effectual extortion is done repeated doses of the oral polio vaccine for each kid nether five.