{"id":46190,"date":"2024-08-25T14:29:25","date_gmt":"2024-08-25T09:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=46190"},"modified":"2024-08-25T14:29:25","modified_gmt":"2024-08-25T09:29:25","slug":"nih-confirms-polio-virus-in-lahore-sewage-sample","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/health\/nih-confirms-polio-virus-in-lahore-sewage-sample\/","title":{"rendered":"NIH confirms polio virus in Lahore sewage sample"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: The<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/education\/56-teachers-suspended-for-absence-during-board-exams-in-lahore\/\"> National Institute of Health (NIH)<\/a> has confirmed the detection of poliovirus in sewage samples collected from Lahore&#8217;s Gulshan Ravi Disposal Station.<\/p>\n<p>In response, a targeted <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/500-fake-polio-vaccination-drives-reported-in-quetta\/\">immunization campaign<\/a> will be launched on September 10 in specific areas to vaccinate children under five against the highly contagious virus.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after Pakistan recorded its 16th polio case this year, with a 29-month-old girl in Hyderabad&#8217;s Liaquat Colony diagnosed with the virus.<\/p>\n<p>The case highlights the ongoing challenge of polio eradication in the country, with 11 cases reported in Balochistan and three in Sindh. Health officials are investigating the child&#8217;s vaccination history and addressing malnutrition, which is a contributing factor.<\/p>\n<p>The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication reports that poliovirus has been detected in 62 districts, affecting 16 children so far this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: The National Institute of Health (NIH) has confirmed the detection of poliovirus in sewage samples collected from Lahore&#8217;s Gulshan Ravi Disposal Station. In response, a targeted immunization campaign will be launched on September 10 in specific areas to vaccinate children under five against the highly contagious virus. This comes after Pakistan recorded its 16th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":46192,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[144,13310,20831],"class_list":["post-46190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-lahore","tag-polio-virus","tag-sewerage-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46191,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46190\/revisions\/46191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}