KABUL (Pajhwok): Afghanistan and Pakistan could be months away from interrupting the endemic transmission of the crippling poliovirus, believes a WHO official.
Since the start of the current year, Pakistan has reported a three-year-old child with paralytic polio, compared to 20 cases last year.
Afghan officials have confirmed five cases of polio paralysis in children this year, up from two infections in 2022.
Dr. Hamid Jafari, WGO director of polio eradication for the eastern Mediterranean region, said: “Pakistan and Afghanistan have never been this close to reaching the goal of eradicating wild poliovirus (WPV1) concurrently.”
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