6/2/2011 - In the last year, as Pakistan has lost favor with the US and UNICEF, polio virus has paralyzed increasing numbers of Pakistani youth, casting doubt on the good intentions of those who fight polio. To make matters worse, most of the new cases have occurred in children already...
polio . so far this year, there have been six known cases of polio infection, in afghanistan and pakistan—two of the three countries left in the world where polio remains. that's a dramatic drop from 1988, when the virus struck 350,000 people and the world health assembl...
This implies that despite efforts to control and eliminate polio, the disease has not been completely eradicated in the country and remains a concern as vaccination rates are not universal. In 1978, Pakistan initiated the extended program on immunization (EPI) to immunize all children aged 0 to ...