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editorial Kampala — The confirmation of a polio case in Bundibugyo district in the western part of the country this week is an indication that no part of Uganda is safe from this dreaded virus. Over the past two months, close to 10 polio cases were reported...
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Sources at the National Institute of Health in Islamabad told Dawn that five-month-old Haroon Tariq, who belongs to Mian Channu, 11-month-old Hasnain of Jhang and Amjad of Peshawar had tested positive for poliomyelitis. Amjad received seven doses of polio...
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Most frightening of all is the fact that with the year still not complete, the number of polio cases has already exceeded the 37 discovered in 2007. The figure for 2006 was also comfortingly low, suggesting that Pakistan was well on its way to eradicating...
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The provincial health authorities of Sindh, who were yet to recover from media criticism and the growing political pressure for low quality of campaigns in Karachi and other parts of Sindh, got another shocker on the last day of the National Anti-Polio...
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