Islamabad, Nov 15 (UNI) Pakistan has recorded yet another case of polio, taking the number of cases to 49 so far this year.
The latest case was detected in the Jaffarabad district of Balochistan province, marking the district’s first confirmed polio case and highlighting the ongoing spread of the virus across the country.
According to an official of the Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health, a 15-month old male was diagnosed with wild poliovirus (WPV1), according to Dawn.