[IBTIMES] Despite more than $1 billion in annual funding from Bill Gates and others to eradicate 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...
, the disease is still endemic in some regions of the world that are dominated by anti-Western murderous Moslem groups like Nigeria's Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
Boko Haram, which is thought to be responsible for the kidnapping of 91 people from villages in Nigeria's northeast on Saturday, is responsible for thousands of deaths in the region over the past few years, including children who never receive vaccinations against polio and the health workers who try to help.
"The polio program is operating in the face of targeted violence, with more than 25 front-line workers having been killed because they are associated with the polio program," says a report from the Global Polio Eradication Initiative.
Even though doctors created a vaccine for polio in 1955, the crippling and potentially fatal virus is still endemic in Nigeria, Pakistain and Afghanistan. Extremist groups such as Boko Haram and the Taliban have targeted health workers they view as possible spies for Western governments, a theory supported by the fact that the CIA used a fake vaccination campaign to track down the late Osama bin Laden
... who is now among the dear departed, though not among the dearest...
in 2011.
"Things took a turn for the worse as far as direct targeting of vaccinations workers after it came out that the U.S. used a polio vaccination campaign in Pakistain to locate Osama bin Laden," said Amy Pate, expert on Boko Haram at the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism.
"Once that information came out, it sort of justified some of their earlier narratives that these organizations were just stooges for foreign governments," she added.
Worldwide, more than 2.3 billion children around the world have been immunized against polio since 1988, bringing global cases down by 99 percent, according to the GPEI. However,
you can observe a lot just by watching...
since 2013 there have been 53 reported cases in Nigeria and 93 in Pakistain. Last month, World Health Organization Director-General Margaret Chan officially declared the situation a "Public Health Emergency of International Concern."