... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
government's fight against 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...
as 17,583 people didn't allow health workers to administer anti-polio drops to their children in high-risk union councils of the IDP hosting districts during the recent campaign.
Among such people were internally displaced persons too.
The campaign had begun on June 23 and lasted three days.
The provincial health department vaccinated 94 per cent of the targeted 581,463 children i.e. 543,854 in Bannu, Dera Ismail Khan
... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ...
, Lakki Marwat, Tank, Karak and Hangu district
... Hangu is famous for its greenery, hills, beauty and water. Most of the people of this area are Bangash & Orakzai Pashtuns. Part of the Bangash are Shia. The Orakzai and the Sunni Bangash are determined to kill them...
s.
Over 17,580 didn't let their children get vaccinated in recent campaign. Most of the vaccination refusal cases were reported in Bannu and Lakki Marwat.
Among those refusing the children's vaccination were displaced families from North
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Wazoo, which has been reporting the most polio cases in the country due to the Taliban ban on vaccination since June 2012.