Islamabad, March 14, 2024 – A child has been paralyzed by wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) in Dera Bugti district of Balochistan, marking the first polio case of 2024.
The Regional Reference Laboratory at the National Institute of Health notified on Thursday that the virus was detected in stool samples collected from a 30-months-old boy from Sui tehsil of Dera Bugti.
The child had onset of weakness in both lower limbs on February 22, and the isolated virus belongs to the imported YB3A cluster.
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