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has been detected in Torghar, bringing the total number of cases to three in the district, officials said on Sunday.
"Another suspected polio case has been detected in the Mara Madakhel area and blood samples have been dispatched for laboratory test," said Fareed Khan, the district coordination officer, Torghar, while talking to news hounds here on Sunday.
The DCO said that during a visit to the area on Saturday, Nasibzar, father of the ill-fated boy, complained that his three-year-old son, Mohammad Younus, had fallen prey to the deadly disease and was paralsed.
Fareed Khan said that the child had polio symptoms and the case had been reported to Hazara Commissner Khalid Khan Orakzai.
He added that last week another polio case was detected and its results were positive, increasing the number of confirmed cases in the district to two. He said that all the three cases were detected in Mara Madakhel area, which falls at the Malakand side of the Indus River and it has boundaries with the militancy-hit Buner and Shangla districts.
In response to a question, the DCO said that it would be premature to speak about the causes behind the increasing number of polio cases in the newly-established district, but one thing was clear that the area had remained neglected since the creation of the country in 1947.
He said that literacy rate in the area among men was hardly 4 to 10 per cent and among women near to zero. He said that it seemed that people did not bother to pay attention to administering polio drops to their children.