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India-Pakistan |
Govt hopeful of eradicating polio by next year |
2015-08-09 |
[DAWN] Minister of State for National Health Services Saira Afzal Tarar said on Friday that areas where the government lacked access, including Wazoo and some other parts of the tribal region, had become hubs of 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 but a National Routine Immunisation Plan was being prepared to permanently eradicate the disease from the country. "Tirah valley in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) is the largest area where the virus exists, while in the past it had also been reported in Waziristan and other areas where the government had no access because of anti-peace elements," she said during a presser at the Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... Assembly. |
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