Islamabad: World Health Organisation (WHO) official on Sunday assured that the country would likely be declared free of polio P3 virus in April 2013 if no case would be reported.
Head of the Polio Eradication Initiative at WHO Pakistan, Dr Elias Durry said that last case of polio P3 virus was reported in Khyber Agency in April 2012, an area present in the tribal belt where most of the children do not get vaccinations, and since then no case has been reported.
“We believe that Pakistan is on the right track to become free of poliovirus type P3, as the last P3 case was reported in the Bara Tehsil in Khyber Agency in the second week of April 2012, whereas all recent sewage samples show no active transmission of the P3 strain across the country.”
P3 virus is the most dangerous polio virus but Dr Elias said that 31 samples were gathered from different parts of the country and no traces of the polio virus were detected in them.
He further said that it was for the first time that no case has been reported in the last eight months.
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