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| Iraq Reports First Suspected Polio Case Since 2000 |
| 2014-03-28 |
| [AnNahar] Iraq's health ministry said Wednesday it had found its first suspected 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... case in 14 years, which could have originated in neighboring Syria where confirmed cases have sparked a region-wide alert. The suspected case was found in a young boy in Bab al-Sham near Storied Baghdad, ministry front man Ziad Tariq told Agence La Belle France Presse. He said the case was not yet confirmed and that samples had been sent to the United States for further testing, with results expected on Sunday. If confirmed, it would be Iraq's first case of polio since 2000. "We suspect the case originated in Syria," Tariq said. "We are afraid of that, we have thousands of refugees from Syria, and the health situation is complicated because Anbar is bordering Syria." Anbar, a predominantly Sunni province in western Iraq, has been long been a source of unrest in Iraq. In early January, anti-government fighters took control of all of the Anbar city of Fallujah, ... the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called Center of Prosperityor a really nice place to raise your kids... and parts of the picturesque provincial capital Ramadi, some of which they still hold. Late last year, the U.N. confirmed that at least 17 children in war-wracked Syria had been paralyzed by polio, in the country's first cases of the disease since 1999. Fifteen of the cases were in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor, large swathes of which are under rebel control. The outbreak in the midst of Syria's three-year-old civil war prompted the World Health Organisation and U.N. childrens' agency UNICEF to launch a vaccination campaign for 23 million children across the Middle East, which got under way in earnest this month. Tariq said a vaccination campaign was already under way in Iraq and would run until April 6, over and above routine childhood vaccinations. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #3 Let's play...........BEAT THE REAPER!!!!!!!! /jihadis emulating the Firesign Theatre |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2014-03-28 19:40 |
| #2 somebodies been to Pakiwakiland. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2014-03-28 12:28 |
| #1 Allahu Akhbar! |
| Posted by: Frank G 2014-03-28 10:26 |