PESHAWAR, Sept 23: Two more cases of polio have been found in Peshawar, raising to 23 the number of victims of the deadly disease detected in the NWFP this year.

Officials said that the National Institute of Health in Islamabad had confirmed that 18-month-old Wajeeha, of Bazidkhel village, and 16-month-old Afghan boy Ikram, of the Zindai refugee camp, had tested positive for poliomyelitis.

Wajeeha had received nine and Ikram eight doses of the oral polio vaccine. According to the officials, Ikram had gone to Afghanistan in July and had not received any polio vaccine during the past four months.

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