Health officials pronounced that one-year-old Salma Bibi from Peshawar’s Nasab Colony had not perceived even a singular sip of verbal polio vaccine (OPV), Dawn online reported.
‘She has not been administered OPV given of her mother’s unwillingness,’ a officials said.
According to a officials, Bibi’s mom didn’t open a doorway for vaccinators as per her husband’s instructions.
Similarly, Hafsa from Khyber Agency remained unvaccinated due to her parents’ rebuttal to let OPV administered to their child.
People in a genealogical areas are underneath myth that vaccination was criminialized in Islam, a an central said.
The sum series of polio cases rescued in Pakistan this year has risen to 104.
The vaccination campaigns in Khyber Agency has been influenced given a Taliban criminialized immunisation in Nov 2012.
It has been formidable for health workers in genealogical areas to immunize children due to a rage of Taliban militants, health officials said.
Pakistan has available a top series of polio cases among a other dual autochthonous countries, Afghanistan and Nigeria.
An estimated 160,000 children have not been vaccinated given 2012.
What is polio?
Polio or poliomyelitis is a catching viral illness that affects a nerves and can lead to prejudiced or permanent paralysis. It is transmitted by sofa or saliva. The tellurian bid to exterminate polio has been really successful and from 350,000 cases in 1988 usually 40 cases were reported worldwide in 2012. There is no heal for a diseases yet vaccination can forestall a illness for life. India has finished remarkably in eradicating polio and from 2011 no new cases were reported.
With inputs from IANS
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