Sunday, 5 August 2012

Sewage samples show presence of poliovirus: WHO

Islamabad

 

Sewage samples from Rawalpindi and Lahore in Punjab, Sukkur and Hyderabad in Sindh and Peshawar in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have shown presence of poliovirus, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has informed through a press release issued here on Sunday.

 

Poliovirus has also been found in sewage water samples collected from Gaddap Town, Karachi, after a gap of about four months. Gaddap Town is one of the country’s key poliovirus reservoirs where a lot of efforts

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