This year, the health authorities has reported first case of polio virus in in Nangarhar province of Afghanistan.
According to reports, a four-year-old child has been diagnosed with polio virus in the province and up to two cases of the wild polio virus have been found worldwide.
Polio is an infectious disease that is usually spread through contaminated food and water. When the disease invades nervous system, it leads to paralysis within hours.
The poisonous virus flourish in the borderlands between Afghanistan and Pakistan, where militants attacked and even killed anti-polio teams.
In Bannu district of the province Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan recorded its first case of 2023 in March of this year.