A 10-month-old infant from Kanhapur village in Dharur tehsil of Beed district in Maharashtra has been diagnosed with polio infection.

District health department sources said the child has Vaccine Derived Polio Virus type 2, a very rare variety of the disease. The boy has been now sent to Latur for further treatment.

A.K. Singare, residential medical office of Swami Ramanand Teerth Hospital, Ambejogai, said the child might not have received timely vaccination doses. —PTI