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India-Pakistan
First polio case of high transmission season brings total count to 12
2016-06-25
[DAWN] The first 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 of the high transmission season has been reported from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
, bringing the polio case count for this year to 12.

The case was confirmed by the National Institute of Health’s Polio Virology Laboratory. A one year old child, whose sample was received by the lab three weeks ago, has died.

The poliovirus is less active during the low transmission season from September to May due to lower temperatures, while June to August is known as the high transmission season.

An official of the national health services (NHS) ministry who is not authorised to speak on the record said that the one year old belonged to a family from Dera Ismail Khan
... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ...
.
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