Pakistan health authorities confirmed a new case of wild poliovirus (WPV1) in District Torghar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. This is the second case from District Torghar this year.
The case was a 12-month-old boy from Union Council Ghari, Torghar. With this detection, the total number of polio cases in Pakistan in 2025 has reached 30 – including 19 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), nine from Sindh, and one each from Punjab and Gilgit-Baltistan.
Officials are intensifying efforts to sustain comprehensive vaccination coverage and ensure the highest quality campaigns in vulnerable areas. The National Task Force has endorsed the 2025–26 roadmap to stop polio transmission through multiple supplementary immunization activities and efforts to strengthen routine immunization. The fourth national polio vaccination campaign of 2025 was conducted last week vaccinating over 44 million children. The campaign in South KP is currently in progress (20 – 23 October).
Polio is a highly contagious and incurable disease that can cause lifelong paralysis. The only effective protection is through repeated doses of the Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) for every child under the age of five during each vaccination campaign, along with the timely completion of all routine immunization.
while it can cause life long paralysis it is also a virus that keeps on giving .. many of us that were recoveries are now dealing with paralysis that started 20-40 years later and is progressive .. actually many that had only one or two limbs paralyzed are now dealing with more paralisis than they originally had. Any of us that suffered even only a week or two of the "polio flu" can find we can get Post Polio sequelae later.