ISLAMABAD: Three more cases of poliovirus were reported from Sindh, Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) on Wednesday, taking the total number of cases to six in the current year. Sources said that the parents of the child had refused the administration of the polio vaccine to the infant. According to the CDC, polio outbreaks have been reported in eight Asian countries, including Pakistan, Afghanistan, China, Burma, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea and the Philippines. Particularly, the WHO had extended travel restrictions on Pakistan following frequent outbreaks of vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) and wild poliovirus type 1 (WP1) cases. According to the US travel alert 2, the CDC recommends that all travelers to the countries in-question be vaccinated fully against polio.

Source: Pakistan Today January 29, 2020 13:41 UTC