Pakistan polio toll in 2025 reaches 30 as new cases surface in KP
A female health worker administering polio falls on a child during the 7-day Pakistan Polio Eradication Program 2024 in Peshawar on September 9, 2024. — APP A twelve month old boy from Ghari Union Council was infected. The September surveillance identified 44 positive sewage samples. Sindh records the highest number of positive detections. A new case of wild poliomyelitis (WPV1) has been confirmed in Torghar district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, by the Regional Polio Eradication Reference Laboratory at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Islamabad, bringing the total number of polio cases in Pakistan in 2025 to 30. The virus was




