{"id":221127,"date":"2023-05-14T11:27:04","date_gmt":"2023-05-14T03:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=221127"},"modified":"2023-05-14T11:36:19","modified_gmt":"2023-05-14T03:36:19","slug":"pakistan-confirms-detection-of-wild-poliovirus-in-environmental-sample","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=221127","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Confirms Detection Of Wild Poliovirus In Environmental Sample"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ISLAMABAD, May 14 (NNN-APP) &#8211; The Pakistani health ministry, confirmed the detection of wild poliovirus in an environmental sample, from South Waziristan district, in Pakistan&#8217;s north-west Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The wild poliovirus type 1, was isolated from a sewage sample collected from the Qureshi Mohalla area of the district, on Apr 19, the ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The virus is genetically linked to poliovirus found in a sewage sample collected from the same district in Sept, 2022, it added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Pakistan Polio Eradication Programme is conducting tests for poliovirus at 114 fixed environmental sites in the country every month, said the statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;To further enhance surveillance in high-risk areas, it has also been collecting additional sewage samples from multiple sites, in southern KP, periodically, and this latest detection is from one such collection site,&#8221; according to the ministry.&#8211; NNN-APP <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD, May 14 (NNN-APP) &#8211; The Pakistani health ministry, confirmed the detection of wild poliovirus in an environmental sample, from South Waziristan district, in Pakistan&#8217;s north-west Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province. The wild poliovirus type 1, was isolated from a sewage sample collected from the Qureshi Mohalla area of the district, on Apr 19, the ministry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":221129,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,322,286,198],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221127"}],"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=221127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221128,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221127\/revisions\/221128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/221129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}