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- The Pakistan government has suspended the anti-polio drive and Lot Quality Assurance Sampling(LQAS) after the increased number of attacks against polio workers in different parts of the country.
- The countrywide campaign to administer anti-polio drops to 39 million children under five years of age was launched after which the evaluation of the drive was to take place.
- However,the campaign ran into trouble after reports that several children were taken to hospital as they had fallen sick after being administered the anti-polio vaccine.
- Pakistan is one of the three countries where polio is still endemic.The other two countries are Afghanistan and Nigeria.The campaign aimed to provide anti-polio medicine to children in all four provinces as well as Pakistan occupied Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan.
- The Lot Quality Assurance Sampling (LQAS) is used by the World Health Organisation as new sampling methodology to document status of anti-polio coverage and areas of weak coverage with statistical reliability.
- Poliomyelitis,often called polio or infantile paralysis,is an acute infectious disease caused by polio virus.The virus is a human enterovirus of the Picornaviridae
- It is transmitted from one person to another by oral contact with secretions or faecal material from an infected person.It attacks the central nervous system through the bloodstream and damage the cells and paralyse the victim.



