[Dawn] IT began as a narrative in pockets of resistance that many thought should not prove that difficult to counter, but it has turned into a sustained and violent campaign. Over the months, we have seen the anti-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...
drive losing ground with startling rapidity, particularly in the northwest. Entire communities have refused to let the polio vaccination be administered to their children, and polio workers have been attacked and killed. Meanwhile,
...back at the Esquimeau village Jack was learning how to rub noses with Nootka's wife......
reports of children having contracted the crippling virus continue to surface with distressing frequency. Consider the fact that on Thursday, members of a polio vaccination team were manhandled and driven out of the Merozai area in Kohat. The workers were there as a result of the constitution of a special polio vaccination campaign that was launched in Kohat after a three-year-old child was found infected with the virus two weeks ago. Resistance to the vaccination is in fact on the rise in Kohat division, even though it is amongst the areas where populations are at relatively greater risk given their proximity to Afghanistan -- which, along with Pakistain, is one of only three polio-endemic countries left in the world -- and cross-border movement.