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Aligarh (Uttar Pradesh), Sept 12 : Health officials have detected three fresh cases of polio from Aligarh in Uttar Pradesh, a region seen as a key global battleground against the paralysing disease.
Ironically, one of the children affected by the virus is the son of a medical volunteer, who works for the periodical anti-Polio campaign.
Experts say Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, with their tropical climate, crowded towns, poor sanitary conditions, high birth rates and widespread diarrhoea among children have been fertile grounds for the polio virus to flourish.
"This year in Aligarh we have found three cases of polio with the P-3 virus," said R C Chadha, Chief Medical Officer of Aligarh.
"I work with CMC (Community mobilisation co-ordinator) in Polio. I got to know few days back that my child cannot walk. First I thought he had some physical problem but after some time we came to know that he is suffering from polio," said Saeena, mother of a polio-affected child.
The type 3 strain paralyses one in around 1,000 children infected and does not travel too far. Type 2-polio was last recorded in the world in western Uttar Pradesh in 1999.
However, Rehmat Ali, father of another polio-affected complained that his child has been affected by the virus, in spite of giving him regular polio drops.
" I have made my child to drink polio drop 20-25 times but the doctor had told us that the child is suffering from polio. Now seeing this I will not allow my other children to have polio drops."
India is the focus of concern among the global health community after an outbreak of 676 cases in 2006 -- a tenfold jump over 2005 and one third of the world's total.
Around 96 percent of cases in 2006 were of the virulent type 1 strain that paralyses around 1 out of every 200 children infected and travels over wide areas.
India, which is aims to eradicate polio by the end of 2008, has seen 103 cases of polio this year against 150 till the end of June last year, but, more importantly, type 1 cases in the first six months have fallen to 39 against 145 year-on-year.
ANI
