More children tested for polio

BOGOR, West Java: Bogor Health Agency is testing feces and urine samples of five children believed to have contracted polio amid the recent outbreak in the country.

Agency head Djono Karjoeki said on Sunday that the agency had previously tested three other children and the results were negative.

Djono said around 101 health centers in the regency were scheduled to carry out a massive immunization program on March 31.

There have been at least eight cases of polio as of May 14, all coming from villages near the West Java town of Sukabumi. One of them is being treated in Jakarta. -- JP