[Dawn] Unwillingness of parents to immunise their children below five years of age against 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...
has become a major issue for the local health and district authorities forcing them to join their heads to find out a solution to it.
The number of such children whose parents are reluctant to administer them with oral polio vaccine is over 2,000, who are vulnerable to attack of crippling disease.
After surfacing of two confirmed polio cases in the district this year the disease is posing a serious threat to thousands of children along with those whose parents are unwilling to vaccinate them.
"In the previous campaign launched last month the health department recorded 2,439 refusal cases and out of them 154 were covered during the three day activities," said an official. He said 827 children were covered during post-campaign catch-up activity while 1,458 children could not be vaccinated due to refusal by their parents.