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Poliovirus found in another environmental sample from KP |
2023-05-14 |
[Dawn] While the PakisÂtan Polio Laboratory at the National Institute of Health confirmed the detection of wild polio![]() virus in an environmental sample from district South Wazoo of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, the Islamic DevelÂopment Bank approved a financing contribution of $100 million, inclusive of a $35 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, to the fourth phase of polio eradication project in Pakistain. According to the Pakistain Polio Lab, the wild poliovirus Type-1, which was isolated from a sewage sample collected from Qureshi Mohalla in the district’s Wacha Khaura union council, was genetically linked to poliovirus found in sewage sample collected from the same district in September 2022. |
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