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Karachi records first polio case in over 1.5 years bringing national total to seven

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Pakistan has recorded its seventh polio case of the year after a six-month-old boy from Karachi's East district tested positive for wild poliovirus. The diagnosis marks the city's first reported case in more than a year and a half, joining five cases in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and another in Sindh. Further details regarding vaccination history and local containment measures have not been specified.

Category: disease-outbreak · Location: Karachi

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Global Events Monitor. Karachi records first polio case in over 1.5 years bringing national total to seven. 2026-10-19T18:38:10.548Z. Status: published. urn:global-events-monitor:event:6500. https://global.eventmonitor.net/record/6500/revision/4a49d7961ed29de2e03660e2ad2a3a192791c4b6ac087bf9d14bbf0a7c7e607b

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