Polio Update

Polio Surveillance update as on March 20, 2010.

Overall case count of 2010 is 11:

* Total number of confirmed polio cases (as on 20th of March, 2010) = 11.  This includes:
* 03 type-1 cases (1 each from, Peshawar in NWFP and 1 from Bajour & Khyber agencies in FATA)
* 08 type-3 cases (2 from Bajour agency in FATA, 1 each from Swat and Peshawar in NWFP, 1 from Karachi-Gulshan-e-Iqbal in Sindh & 3 from Quetta in Balochistan)

The attachment has two tables, as follows:

Table 1: Confirmed polio cases by month & by year (2001-2010)

Table 2: Confirmed polio cases by province, district & by type in 2010

We all have to work together to make Pakistan Polio-Free.

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