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Pakistan reports 3rd polio case this year

ISLAMABAD, Oct. 5 (Xinhua) — An 18-month-old baby girl in Pakistan’s northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province has been paralyzed by wild poliovirus, the Pakistani Health Ministry said late Wednesday night.

The child was hit by paralysis on Sept. 13, the ministry said in a statement, adding that the wild poliovirus type-1 was detected from stool specimen of the child living in Bannu district of the province.