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Abstract: Malaria is the disease with the highest death rate and highest spread rate in the whole wide world. The study below is conducted during the widespread of malaria in different northern areas of Pakistan. Surveys were carried out and data was collected quantitatively from specific sites of Malakand Division, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (K.P.), Pakistan. Certain patients were screened through thick and thin smear films and a Light microscope was used to observe the results. A total number of 2517 of blood samples were tested of which 12% were positive for Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum . From both of the strains, P. vivax infected most of the patients and mostly male patients were infected. The proliferation was more during the summer season when there were more mosquitoes and the spread was lowest during the winter season. Also, no mixed infections were detected. To treat these parasitic infections, numerous drugs were produced. The antimalarial drug that treated most o...

Introduction: The question arises in our mind that, why is poliovirus still present in Pakistan? How is poliovirus eradicated globally except Pakistan? What is the barrier in poliovirus eradication program in Pakistan? Poliovirus is an enterovirus, belongs to the picornoviridae (small RNA virus) family. It is the main causative agent of poliomyelitis . The word poliomyelitis comes from Greek words that is Polio meaning Grey and myelos meaning spinal cord , which means Poliovirus affect the grey matter of spinal cord and cause paralysis and death of individual. Poliomyelitis is also referred as Acute Anterior Poliomyelitis OR Acute Paralytic Diseases (1) . Poliovirus is transmitted through fecal-oral route or oral-oral route; therefore, mouth is the portal of entry. Whereas oropharynx or intestine is the site of replication that's why poliovirus is present in throat or stool all the time (7) . Poliovirus is completely eradicated from all over the world by immunization a...