From Indian Express :
" Seven months after a polio case in Malegaon, Nashik district, dented the no-polio image Maharashtra had in 2009, another case has been detected in the same area, bringing to focus the refusal of a section of the Muslims to vaccinate children.
On Thursday, samples collected from two-year-old Akhil Shaikh, son of a powerloom labourer in Malegaon’s Datar Nagar, tested positive. It has been learnt he had not received the vaccine routinely. In January, two-and-a-half-year-old Mohammed Qasim Ahmed was detected with the virus.
Dr Bharat Wagh, medical officer in the health department of the Malegaon Municipal Corporation, said 17 stool samples from children below 15 years were sent to the Haffkine Institute as part of the acute flaccid paralysis surveillance. Shaikh’s case was confirmed."
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