Still A Threat: Poliovirus found in sewage samples
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QUETTA: The poliovirus has been rescued in uninformed sewage samples retrieved from Quetta, Pishin and Qilla Abdullah, indicating that a crippling illness still poses a hazard to children in a province. The Technical Advisory Group (TAG) has endorsed that Balochistan concentration on a high risk area of Quetta-block (which includes Quetta, Pishin, and Qilla Abdullah). Doctors of WHO took samples from a sewage final month. “These samples valid that poliovirus still exists in a sourroundings of these 3 districts,” a source in a Emergency Operation Centre for Polio said.
Published in The Express Tribune, Oct 22nd, 2016.
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