The Indonesian government has found six new polio infections, putting the total number of cases to 34 since the disease re-spreaded in the country last month, the World Health Organization said Friday.

Spokesman of the international organization Sari Setiogi told Xinhua the six cases were all found in the provinces of Banten and West Java, in Western part of Java island.

"There has been 6 additional cases, one of them found in Sukabumi regency, bringing the total cases to 34," she said.

Earlier in May the first case of the crippling disease was detected since 1995 in Sukabumi district in West Java province about 100 kilometers from Jakarta.

The government has vaccinated over 6 million children since late last month in a bid to stamp out the disease.

The polio outbreak in Indonesia is predicted to have been transferred by a virus that had been brought here via Saudi Arabia either with migrant workers or Islamic pilgrims returning from Mecca.

Polio is a waterborne virus that usually affects infants and young children, causing paralysis, withered muscles and sometimes death.

Source: Xinhua