New Polio Case Found in Pakistan Valley: Officials

news.ph.msn.com — Health workers in Pakistan said Monday they have discovered a new case of polio in a baby girl in the northwestern Swat valley, where ongoing unrest has prevented vaccination.The eight-month-old victim is the cousin of another baby girl who was the first in the area to be discovered with the crippling P1 polio virus, they said."I can confirm the second P1 polio case in Swat," Waheed Khan, deputy director of the immunisation programme, told AFP."We don't know yet whether the infant girls caught the virus in Swat or elsewhere," Khan said."We are launching another door-to-door vaccination campaign from July 28-30 and a separate special vaccination will be carried out in Swat, but it depends on peace in the

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