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India-Pakistan
Four-month old polio victim dies in Pakistan
2013-12-05
[DAWN] A four-month old baby suffering from the endemic 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...
virus has died in Pakistain, doctors and health officials said Wednesday.

The death underscores the problems in eradicating polio in Pakistain, one of only three countries in the world where the highly infectious crippling disease remains endemic.

The death of Amna, a four-month old infant, took place in the low-income locality of Baldia Town 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...
, the country's largest city and commercial hub.

Deaths from the disease are rare. One in 200 infections leads to irreversible paralysis. Among those paralysed, five per cent to ten per cent die when their breathing muscles become immobilised.
Posted by:Fred

#2  I'm with Dopey. It's the 21st century. WTF is the matter with you people?
Posted by: SteveS   2013-12-05 23:23  

#1  I hadda cupola good snarx, but, reelee, Islam has become beneath contempt.
Posted by: Dopey Sinatra   2013-12-05 16:23  

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