Islamabad, May 26, 2023 – Wild poliovirus has once again been found in sewage sample from Hangu district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province. According to the Pakistan Polio Laboratory at the National Institute of Health, wild poliovirus type 1 was detected in an environmental sample collected from the Civil Hospital-Jani Chowk site on May 9. Earlier, a sample collected from this site had also tested positive for poliovirus in April.
