Polio in Pakistan
Occurrence of poliomyelitis in Pakistan / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Pakistan is one of the two remaining countries[1][2] in the world where poliomyelitis (polio) is still categorized as an endemic viral infection,[3] the other one being Afghanistan.[1] While it has yet to fully eradicate Polio, there has been a downwards trend in the number of reported cases per year; the total count of wild poliovirus cases in Pakistan in 2019 was 147,[4] compared to 84 in 2020, 1 in 2021, 20 in 2022,[5] 6 in 2023[6] and 2 to date in 2024.[6]
Though the polio immunization campaign in the country started in 1974,[7] the efforts for eradication officially started in 1994.[8] The infection remains endemic despite over 100 rounds of vaccination being carried out in the past decade.[9] Pakistan had the world's highest number of polio cases in 2014.[10][11][12][13]