KHOST
CITY (PAN): Southeastern Khost province recorded three new positive
polio cases. Health officials
confirmed presence of poliomyelitis in
three vaccinated children in a district
near the Pakistani border.
The
affected children belonged to a village in the Qalander district that
lies near the Pakistani border, Public Health Director Dr. Amir
Badsha Mangal said, adding it remained unclear how the virus got to
Khost which has been polio-free
since 2002.
He
said the affected children had been administered polio
drops during a campaign aimed at
left-over and migrated children.
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