The WHO is again lifting the polio bans in Pakistan

 The WHO is again lifting the polio bans in Pakistan

The World Health Organization (WHO) has renewed polio-related travel restrictions in Pakistan for another three months. The development comes after Pakistan was accused of transmitting the polio virus to Malawi, a small country in Southeast Africa.

The World Public Health Agency banned the ban for the first time in 2014, when Pakistan has tried in the past to limit the spread of poliovirus. Since 2014, the WHO has extended the bans to every three months.

According to the details, a three-year-old Malawian girl with a WPV1 poliovirus strain was diagnosed in November last year. The Crisis Committee on International Health Regulations for Polio (PIHR) has accused Pakistan of its analysis.

This poliovirus strain was first found in inner Sindhu regions such as Thatta and Badin. She was later moved to Karachi before being completely lost in Pakistan. This particular variant of poliovirus has not been discovered in the country since 2019.

When asked about the PIHR's statement on Pakistan following Bill Gates' visit in February 2022, Dr. Faisal Sultan, SAPM Health, completely refutes PIHR's claims. WPV1 would have to circulate in Malawi for several years before the first case appeared in November 2021, because Pakistan had not reported a single case of poliovirus as a result of WPV1 since 2019, says Dr. Faisal. He also criticized Dr. Faisal criticized PIHR for associating Pakistan with WPV1 detection in Malawi only on the basis of the latest case of a poliovirus strain that began before 2019.

In fact, PIHR's claims seem disproportionate because Bill Gates, co-founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, also praised Pakistan's polio program on his first visit to the country.

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