(MENAFN- QNA) A 22-months-old girl was confirmed to be the latest victim of the crippling polio virus in city's UC-8 of Gadap Town in Pakistan's Karachi, surging the toll of affected children to eleven in Karachi this year, (Dunya News) reported on Wednesday.
It is the third case from the same union council and fifth from Gadap Town.
After emergence of five 13 polio cases on Tuesday, the tally has reached 158. Out of which, 112 in Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), 29 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 12 Sindh, three Balochistan and two new cases have surfaced in Punjab this year.
Polio virus mainly affects children below age of 5.
Pakistan is in the spotlight as the only country with endemic polio that saw cases rise last year. Its caseload rose to 93 from 58 in 2012, accounting for more than a fifth of the 417 cases globally in 2013.
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