Second polio case surfaces in Lahore in two days.

Another case of polio has been surfaced in Lahore after which, the toll has reached ten in the city.

According to details, the victim was identified as 13-year-old girl.

'Samples were collected on April 2 and sent to Islamabad for confirmation. The virus belongs to an Outfall Pumping Station in Lahore,' an official at polio laboratory of the National Institute of Health said.

Efforts to eliminate polio in Pakistan have became complicated in recent years, as polio workers have faced attacks by militants who say the health teams are Western spies, or that the vaccines they administer are intended to...

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