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India-Pakistan
New polio case in North Waziristan
2014-02-12
[DAWN] The National Institute of Health Islamabad confirmed a new polio
...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set...
case in North Wazoo Agency on Monday.

"The country has registered 10 cases this year, all from North Waziristan Agency,"

officials said. They added that North Waziristan Agency had recorded 44 cases, highest number of the 92 cases registered in the country in 2013. All the affected children, detected last year, hadn't received any dose of the oral polio vaccine because of the ban imposed on immunisation in the area by Taliban in June 2012.

All the affected children detected in 2014 hadn't been administered anti-polio vaccine owing to the Taliban's ban.

On Monday, one-year-old Hilal, daughter of Saeedullah, a resident of Datta Khel in Miranshah
... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministate in centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas...
was tested positive for polio. She didn't get the anti-polio vaccine. The ban on polio drops in North and South Waziristan has left about 260,000 children without vaccination. The unvaccinated children risked being affected by the crippling disease, officials said.
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