Poliovirus Strikes Peshawar: Two Environmental Samples Test Positive
By: Omed Hajjana Poliovirus Strikes Peshawar as two environmental samples collected from Peshawar district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan have tested positive for wild poliovirus. The Pakistan Polio Laboratory at the National Institutes of Health confirmed that wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) was found in sewage samples obtained from Naray Khuwar and Larama collection…