Fifth case of current year emerges from Quetta

This year’s fifth case of poliovirus infection has been confirmed in Quetta. The infected child did not survive and died in Karachi last month.

According to the Regional Reference Laboratory at the National Institute of Health (NIH), the legs of the two-year-old child were affected by the crippling disease on April 29. He was later shifted to Karachi, but his condition worsened…