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India-Pakistan
Health ministry reports two new polio cases
2018-10-18
[DAWN] The National Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) for 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...
eradication on Wednesday notified about two new polio cases ‐ one from Gadap area in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
and other from Khyber tribal district in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ‐ bringing the total number of polio cases in the country to six this year, however, the virus failed to cause any clinical paralysis to both the children.

According to a statement issued by the health ministry, the first case of polio was confirmed in a 42-month-old female child from Gadap, Karachi, and the other case was confirmed in a 55-month old female child from Khyber tribal district, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. The laboratory detected the presence of poliovirus in their stool samples taken on October 1 September 30, respectively.

"Fortunately, both girls had received multiple doses of the Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) which boosted their immunity and protected them from a life-long paralysis," read the statement.

Posted by:Fred

#1  127 cases of polio-like illness under investigation, CDC says
Posted by: Skidmark   2018-10-18 00:41  

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