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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Is polio back? UP samples ring alarm bells -Mrigank Tiwari

Is polio back? UP samples ring alarm bells -Mrigank Tiwari

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published Published on Jun 20, 2015   modified Modified on Jun 20, 2015
-The Times of India

BAREILLY: A mere year after the country was declared polio free, more than 200 samples have tested positive to polio-like symptoms from tehsils here, sending alarm bells ringing in the health department.

The samples, from Baheri, Meergunj, Faridpur and Nawabgunj among other tehsils, have been sent to the central laboratory in Mumbai for further testing. Officials have also been informed that the children, between the ages of 5 and 15 years, have complained of paralysis and loss of muscular strength in hands and legs.

According to World Health Organisation (WHO) rules, a country needs to have zero recorded cases of an infectious disease for three years for the disease to be eradicated. After years of intense campaigns across the country, India's last polio case, that of 18-month-old Rukhsar from Howrah district in West Bengal, was reported in 2011. Three years later, the country was declared polio free.

The latest cases were examined by a team of doctors at primary and community health centres in the affected tehsils, who in turn informed WHO officials. The worldwide organization spearheaded moves to collect stool samples of the children, numbering 208, were sent to the Mumbai lab. Reports are awaited.

Meanwhile, the local administration is taking no chances. "We have deputed special teams across the district who are keeping an eye on such cases. Weakness in hands and legs does not essentially mean that the child is suffering from polio. Only if the test report of the stool sample confirms presence of wild polio virus can it be treated as a case of polio. We have received reports of 170 samples from the lab so far and they have been negative. Reports for the remaining are awaited," informed chief medical officer (CMO) Vijay Yadav, talking to TOI.

The last polio case in Bareilly, said Yadav, was reported in 2009 from Bhamaura village, while Uttar Pradesh's last case was reported in 2010 in Firozabad district. In 2015, WHO had collected 5,551 samples in 2015. Most of them tested negative and the reports of 787 are awaited.

"Across the world this year, only 25 cases of polio have been reported from Pakistan and three in Afghanistan. We have to remain extra cautious, because we share our boundary with Pakistan and chances are that the virus will be transmitted from there," said Yadav. Doctors said that symptoms of polio include high fever, paralysis attack, weakening of muscles in hands and legs and loss of sensation in the face.

The Times of India, 20 January, 2015, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Is-polio-back-UP-samples-ring-alarm-bells/articleshow/47741165.cms


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