Polio case reported in Balochistan.

QUETTA -- Another polio case has been detected in Balochistan, taking the number of children infected with the crippling virus to 14 in the province during the current year.

Health officials said on Friday that the new victim of poliovirus was a nine-month-old boy who belongs to Union Council Dalbandin Sardar of Chagai district.

Samples of the child had been taken on June 10 and 11 after observing some suspected symptoms in him and sent to the laboratory which confirmed that the boy had been infected with poliovirus.

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