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| Pakistan launches first ever polio injection drive in Fata |
| 2015-01-08 |
| [DAWN] For the first time in Pakistain's history the health authorities have started administering 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... injections in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata), officials said on Wednesday. The injectable/inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) is said to be highly effective in preventing paralytic disease caused by all three types of poliovirus and is currently being used by a majority of the polio-free developed and advanced countries. Officials in the Fata secretariat told Dawn.com that polio injections have been planned for 17,393 children in the frontier region of Bannu. They said that so far about 5,906 children have been injected with anti polio vaccines and the five day drive will end on Friday. |
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