Polio virus has been confirmed in another child in Federally Administered Tribal Areas and the number of polio cases reported in the country so far this year has reached 237.
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The Polio Virology Laboratory at the National Institute of Health has confirmed the case, sources in the Health Department said. Seven-month-old Attiqur Rehman, son of Rahat Sher of Chapari in Khyber Agency, could not be administered drops because of the ban the Taliban had imposed on the polio-eradication campaign in June 2012.
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The highest number of 153 cases has been reported in Fata followed by 48 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 23 in Sindh, 10 in Balochistan and three in Punjab. A source said that every year polio cases in the country were increasing. Around 58 cases were reported in 2012, 93 in 2013 and 237 this year. -dawn
