Infant found paralysed by polio in North Waziristan.

ISLAMABAD -- After yet another polio case was detected in North Waziristan on Friday, the country's tally of the virus for the current year has reached 11, as compared to just one case last year.

On the other hand, the top global health body said Pakistan was among the four countries reporting the wild poliovirus (WPV) besides Afghanistan, MozamAbique and Malawi.

While all the cases in Pakistan this year were reported from North WazirisAtan, eight of them emerged from the Mir Ali area alone.

The latest victim of the crippling disease is an eight-month-old boy who has been paralysed by the WPV. According to an official of the Ministry of National Health Services, the child belonged to Mir Ali in North Waziristan.

'Emergency measures adopted by the Pakistan Polio Programme have so far contained the virus in the southern districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,' the official claimed.

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Federal Health Minister Abdul Qadir Patel, in a statement, said the entire country needed to support efforts to eliminate polio. 'If only families administer two drops of the polio vaccine to their child each time, we can save all the children,' he said.

The minister urged the conventional and social media, religious scholars and all segments of society to play their role in raising awareness among the masses about the polio vaccine.

WHO cautions about VDPV

The World Health Organisation (WHO), on Friday, issued a report about the 32nd meeting of the Emergency Committee under the International Health Regulations (2005) on the international spread of poliovirus.

The meeting convened last week reviewed the data on WPV1 and circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses (cVDPV) in the context of global eradication of the virus, and received technical updates about the situation in...