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| Polio-like samples in India's Uttar Pradesh state ring alarm bells |
| 2015-06-21 |
| [DAWN] Barely a year after India was declared 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... -free, more than 200 samples have tested positive to polio-like symptoms from districts in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, said a report published on The Times of India. The samples -- from Baheri, Faridpur, Meergunj, Nawabgunj and other districts in Bareilly -- have raised concerns in the health department and have been sent for further testing to the central laboratory in Mumbai. Officials were also informed that children aged between 5 and 15 years have complained about loss of muscular strength and paralysis in their limbs. In order for a disease to be eradicated, a country must have zero recorded cases of an infectious disease for three years, according to the rules by World Health Organisation (WHO). India's last case of polio was reported in January 13, 2011, when an 18-month-old girl in a Kolkata slum was found to have contracted it. Three years later, the country was declared polio free. |
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