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...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. Currently the disease is only found in Pakistain and Afghanistain...virus in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa's Orakzai district, taking the total number of cases in Pakistain to six this year, The News reported on Sunday.
The diagnosis has caused a setback to the government's rigorous efforts towards the eradication of polio from the country, particularly KP where the number of cases saw an increase this year and the latest taking the tally to four.
Commenting on the new case found in the KP province, Caretaker Health Minister Dr Nadeem Jan, said: "A nine-month-old child from the Orakzai district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa has been paralysed by poliovirus. This is the fourth polio case from KP and 6th polio case in Pakistain. Earlier, three polio cases were reported from Bannu and two from 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...
," he said, speaking with The News on Saturday.
Genetically, according to the minister, this case is 99.7% linked with the environmental sample of Lahore (Multan
...Home of the Multan Sultans...
Road), which was collected on September 26, 2023, and it is the continuation of the imported cluster in 2023. This is the first case from Orakzai district after almost 12 years.
On the other hand, the Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health (NIH), Islamabad, also confirmed the detection of Type-1 Wild Poliovirus (WPV1) in 20 environmental (sewage) samples collected in November 2023.