{"id":220142,"date":"2023-05-04T11:12:46","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T03:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=220142"},"modified":"2023-05-04T11:19:26","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T03:19:26","slug":"wild-poliovirus-detected-in-sewage-samples-of-nw-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=220142","title":{"rendered":"Wild Poliovirus Detected In Sewage Samples Of NW Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ISLAMABAD, May 4 (NNN-APP) &#8211; Wild poliovirus has been detected in sewage samples, from Pakistan&#8217;s north-west Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, the country&#8217;s health ministry said, yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The virus was also found on Apr 10, in environmental samples, collected from KP&#8217;s Hangu district and provincial capital Peshawar, the ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two detected viruses are genetically linked to poliovirus found in Afghanistan&#8217;s eastern Nangarhar province, in Jan this year, it added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pakistan and Afghanistan will continue to work together in the battle against polio, Pakistani Health Minister, Abdul Qadir Patel, said in a statement.&#8211; NNN-APP &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD, May 4 (NNN-APP) &#8211; Wild poliovirus has been detected in sewage samples, from Pakistan&#8217;s north-west Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, the country&#8217;s health ministry said, yesterday. The virus was also found on Apr 10, in environmental samples, collected from KP&#8217;s Hangu district and provincial capital Peshawar, the ministry said in a statement. The two detected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":220146,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,286,198],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220142"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220142"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220147,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220142\/revisions\/220147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/220146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}