BAREILLY, INDIA (Web Desk) – Only a year after India has been declared polio free, more than 200 samples have tested positive to polio-like symptoms from different districts of the country.
The samples have been sent to the central laboratory in Mumbai for testing, reports Times of India. Suspicion arose when children, between the ages of 5 and 15 years, complained of paralysis and loss of muscular strength in hands and legs.
Doctors examined the latest cases at primary and community health centres in the affected areas and informed World Health Organisation (WHO) officials. The organisation collected stool samples from 208 children, which were sent to the Mumbai laboratory. Test reports are still awaited.
According to WHO rules, a country needs to have zero recorded cases of an infectious disease for three years for the disease to be eradicated.
