Pakistan issued the polio virus to Cairo by sewage
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(WHO) said on Wednesday that he found the polio virus in the streams of the Egyptian capital Cairo, coming from Pakistan, Wednesday, which explains the suffering of Egypt polio cases since 2004.
The newspaper "The New York Times" American Barry Sauna, a spokeswoman for the World Health Organization (WHO), as saying: "now being planned to campaign Ttaaamadd disease on February 25, next."
The newspaper, quoting Sauna in its edition of Thursday morning that health workers Ffersoa cases of Cairene neighborhoods, samples were taken from the wastewater.
She SUNA as saying that the organization is looking for children or adults who have been recently paralyzed.
For its part, Pakistan has said it will deploy teams in international airports to vaccinate all children traveling abroad under the age of 5 years.
In the past month, killing at least nine Pakistani volunteers in vaccination campaigns against polio internationally backed across Pakistan; in a campaign of intimidation that harmed efforts to eradicate the disease there.
Pakistan has one of the three countries, which suffer from outbreaks of disease among the indigenous population, with Afghanistan and Nigeria.
Egypt: Polio Virus Is Found in Cairo’s Sewers
By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
Published: January 23, 2013
The polio virus has been found in the sewers of Cairo, and it appears to have come from Pakistan, the World Health Organization said Wednesday. Egypt has not had a case of polio since 2004.
A vaccination drive is being planned for Feb. 25, and health workers are canvassing the neighborhoods where the sewage samples were taken, looking for children or adults who may have recently been paralyzed, said Sona Bari, a spokeswoman for the W.H.O. Pakistan has said it will post teams at its international airports vaccinating all outward-bound passengers under age 5. ..
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