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October 30, 2024

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Another polio case reported from Balochistan as Pakistan’s toll rises to 43

A girl receives polio vaccine drops during an anti-polio campaign in a low-income neighborhood in Karachi, July 20, 2020. — Reuters The first case has been confirmed in the Chagai region. The laboratory detects poliovirus Type 1 (WPV1). Genetic sequencing of samples in progress. Pakistan reported another case of the polio virus on Wednesday in Balochistan’s Chagai district, bringing the country’s total toll this year to 43. According to the Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institutes of Health, poliovirus Type-1 (WPV1) was identified in one child. The latest case marks the first confirmed case of polio

October 24, 2024

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Pakistan polio virus toll reaches 40 with cases reported in Kohat, KP

A polio worker administers vaccine to a child. — Reuters/File A second case of polio was reported in Kohat district. The last two cases of the disease were reported from Sindh. Balochistan reports the highest number of cases in Pakistan. Islamabad: The polio virus continues to spread in Pakistan with the total number of cases reaching 40 this year. The latest case of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) was reported from Dara Adam Khel tehsil in Kohat district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where a 30-month-old infant was diagnosed with the disease. The News he said on Thursday citing the Regional Reference Laboratory

September 11, 2024

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Pakistan’s mpox toll reaches six as another case reported in KP

A test tube labeled “Monkeypox virus positive” is seen in this picture taken on May 22, 2022. — Reuters PESHAWAR: Another case of monkeypox, also known as monkeypox, has been reported in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), taking the total number of the virus to six in Pakistan, provincial health minister Syed Qasim Ali Shah said on Wednesday. This is the sixth case reported in the country this year and the fifth since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the recent outbreak a public health emergency of international concern after the new variant of the virus was identified in August. The latest

August 31, 2024

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Pakistan’s mpox toll reaches four after third case reported in KP

A test tube labeled “Monkeypox virus positive” is seen in this picture taken on May 22, 2022. — Reuters KP’s third mpox patient was returning from abroad. A patient being treated at Peshawar’s Services Hospital. The government imposes strict screening measures at international airports. The toll of monkeypox in Pakistan this year has reached four after Khyber Pakhtunkhwa reported its third case after the virus was detected in a passenger returning to Pakistan from abroad. Confirming the development, the KP public health director said the Public Health Laboratory has confirmed monkey pox in the patient, who hails from Orakzai. He

August 19, 2024

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British tech tycoon Mike Lynch reported missing after yacht sinks off Sicily

ITALY: British businessman Mike Lynchwho was recently acquitted in the United States of an $11 billion fraud, is among those missing Monday after a superyacht sank off southern Italy, according to the head of the Civil Protection Service. The 56-metre luxury yacht The Bayesian was moored off Porticello, east of Palermo, when the storm suddenly swept ashore before dawn, tearing apart beach clubs and small fishing harbours. LynchHis wife was among 15 people rescued after the luxury yacht sank amid violent winds and rain off the coast of Sicily, according to Salvo Cocina of the Civil Protection Agency, leaving six

August 16, 2024

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Mpox Reported In Pakistan: How Dangerous Is It?

A doctor checks the progress of skin lesions on the ear of a child, suffering from Mpox, at the treatment center in Munigi, following outbreaks of Mpox in Nyiragongo district near Goma, North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of Congo, July 19, 2024. — Reuters At least three patients have been diagnosed with monkeypox in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, provincial health authorities confirmed on Friday. The first case of the disease this year in Pakistan was reported on Thursday, a day after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the ongoing mpox outbreak in Africa a global health emergency – the highest level of

July 20, 2024

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Ninth polio case in Pakistan this year reported from Zhob, Balochistan

Health worker giving polio drops to a child in a town in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. — UNICEF/ Archive Multiple doses of polio immunization are recommended. Six anti-polio programs were conducted this year. Various strategies are adopted to protect children. The number of polio virus cases in Pakistan has risen to nine with the new one reported in Balochistan’s Zhob district. The new case of polio virus was confirmed on Saturday in a one-and-a-half-year-old child hailing from Union Council 2 of Zhob in Hassanzai (Urban) District. The Prime Minister’s Coordinator for National Health Services Dr Malik Mukhtar Ahmad said nine children have

July 6, 2024

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Shark attacks reported in Florida and Texas, three injured

Sharks attacked three people at beaches in Texas and Florida on Thursday as the Independence Day weekend began, officials said, adding to a growing list of such incidents in the US this summer. A 21-year-old Ohio man was bitten on the leg while standing in knee-deep water at the beach in New Smyrna, Florida, said Tamra Malphurs, interim director of Volusia Beach Safety Ocean Rescue. He was taken to a hospital for non-life threatening injuries. That same day on South Padre Island on the Texas Gulf Coast, four people encountered a shark and two were bitten, according to a news

May 25, 2024

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Third case of polio in 2024 reported in Pakistan

Markings made on homes by members of the polio vaccination team in Karachi, indicating the number of children vaccinated. — APPLICATION Wild polio virus type 1 was detected in stool samples of girls at Darozai UC. Earlier two cases of polio were also reported from Balochistan areas. Genetic sequencing of the isolated virus is in progress, NIH officials say. Islamabad: The third polio case of the year was reported from Killa Abdullah district of Balochistan, where a 12-year-old girl was found infected with Wild Poliovirus 1 (WPV1), officials said on Saturday. According to the Regional Polio Reference Laboratory at the

April 3, 2024

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Taiwan hit by strongest earthquake in 25 years, four deaths reported

TAIPEI: A 7.2-magnitude earthquake rocked Taiwan on Wednesday, the strongest to hit the island in at least 25 years, killing four people, injuring dozens and triggering a tsunami warning for southern Japan and the Philippines that was later lifted. Taiwan’s government said four people had died in the mountainous, sparsely populated eastern county of Hualien, near where the epicenter was, with more than 50 injured. At least 26 buildings have collapsed, more than half in Hualien, although in one of the worst-damaged 22 people were rescued and only one was missing, the fire department said. Taiwanese television stations showed footage

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