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Another polio case in NWFP

Published September 19, 2008
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PESHAWAR, Sept 18: Two-year-old Shakila of Battagram has tested positive for poliomyelitis. She is afflicted with the P1 virus.

The child frequently suffered diarrhoeal bouts which affected the efficacy of the oral polio vaccine doses she had received.

This is the second polio case in the province in two days.

— Bureau

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