{"id":43889,"date":"2022-04-26T00:18:24","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T15:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/apr\/25\/spectre-of-polio-returns-to-haunt-pakistan-as-baby-boy-is-left-paralysed"},"modified":"2022-04-26T00:18:24","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T15:18:24","slug":"spectre-of-polio-returns-to-haunt-pakistan-as-baby-boy-is-left-paralysed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43889","title":{"rendered":"Spectre of polio returns to haunt Pakistan as baby boy is left paralysed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First case in a year sparks fears of  new outbreak despite success of national programme to wipe out the disease<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan has confirmed its first case of polio after more than a year, damaging the country\u2019s hopes of eradicating the virus. Health officials have announced that a baby boy in North Waziristan, bordering Afghanistan, is paralysed after contracting polio.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Shahzad Baig, a coordinator with the Pakistan Polio Eradication Programme, confirmed the \u201cdeeply saddening\u201d case.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/apr\/25\/spectre-of-polio-returns-to-haunt-pakistan-as-baby-boy-is-left-paralysed\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First case in a year sparks fears of  new outbreak despite success of national programme to wipe out the diseasePakistan has confirmed its first case of polio after more than a year, damaging the country\u2019s hopes of eradicating the virus. Health officia&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1153,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59,346,60,900,79,61,565,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-development","category-health","category-pakistan","category-polio","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-vaccines-and-immunisation","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43890,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43889\/revisions\/43890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}