What the records say
- When
- Jan 2016
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 30.20° N, 67.02° E
- Description
- A suicide bomb attacker killed 14 people and injured 20 more near a polio centre near the Pakistani city of Quetta on 13 January.
Placed at the town its text puts it in, Quetta.
Polio in Pakistan
Occurrence of poliomyelitis in Pakistan
Pakistan is one of the two remaining countries in the world where poliomyelitis (polio) is still categorized as an endemic viral infection, the other one being Afghanistan. While it has yet to fully eradicate polio, there has been a major downwards trend in the number of reported cases per year; the total count of wild poliovirus cases in Pakistan in 2019 was down to 147, compared to 84 in 2020, 1 in 2021, 20 in 2022…
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