{"id":23880,"date":"2026-10-13T13:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T13:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/13\/afghanistan-polio-cases-rise-to-36-in-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T13:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T13:30:18","slug":"afghanistan-polio-cases-rise-to-36-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/13\/afghanistan-polio-cases-rise-to-36-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan&#8217;s Polio Cases Rise to 36 in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number of polio cases in Afghanistan has reached 36 in 2026 after a new case of the poliovirus was identified in Surkh Rod district of Nangarhar province.<\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organization said on Monday, 20 October, that two new cases of the disease had been recorded in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The other case was identified in Khyber district in Pakistan&#8217;s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.<\/p>\n<p>According to the agency, despite ongoing polio vaccination campaigns in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the number of cases recorded in Afghanistan this year has been higher than in Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan and Pakistan are the only countries in the world where the poliovirus has not yet been fully eradicated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan&#8217;s polio cases rose to 36 in 2026 after a new infection was reported in Nangarhar province, WHO said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-important-news","category-secondary-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}