[DAWN] PESHAWAR: Health authorities are gearing up to start vaccination campaigns in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) following emergence of two new 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...
cases in the Khyber Agency and one in South Wazoo Agency (SWA) on Wednesday.
The National Institute of Health (NIH), Islamabad, confirmed that three more unvaccinated children have tested positive for polio. The three include six-month-old Munsif, son of Mohammad Wazir of village Balulkhel in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency; 18-month-old Bilal, son of Noor Salim of village Akhun Talab in Bara tehsil, Khyber Agency; and 18-month-old Nazia, daughter of Musa Khan of village Kazha Panga in Birmal tehsil of South Waziristan Agency.
Fata has recorded 89 cases of the nationwide 122 in 2014 so far and firmly stands in the way of global polio eradication effort. The World Health Organisation says that North, South and Khyber agencies are still polio endemic where lack of immunisation has led to outbreaks.
North Waziristan Agency, where Taliban banned polio vaccination in June 2012, has 61 cases, Khyber Agency 17 cases, and South Waziristan Agency eight. 
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