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| Peshawar water sample tests positive for poliovirus |
| 2016-08-04 |
| [DAWN] PESHAWAR: The testing of environmental water sample positive for 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 in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. has triggered investigations to find out the causes of presence of the virus in water that remained free of virus for two consecutive months, according to sources. The water sample was tested negative twice in the months of May and June in Shaheen Moslem Town, but it tested positive in July. The health department wants to identify the causes of transportation of the virus and its carriers in the city. The World Health Organisation has been collecting environmental samples from Shaheen Moslem Town, Larama and Dhando Pul areas from sewerage sites in Peshawar to see presence of poliovirus on monthly basis. Sample from Shaheen Moslem Town tested negative last month after staying positive since November last year. "The health department is upset and concerned over presence of poliovirus in the water," said sources. The samples from the two other areas have already been tested negative for poliovirus during the past one year. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 Surprised it didn't test positive crazy. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2016-08-04 13:22 |
| #3 Great! Now two months of harvesting Polio. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2016-08-04 10:07 |
| #2 remained free of virus for two consecutive months Two consecutive months??? Wow then everything is fine right? No possibility that the sample was not sufficient? Welcome to Bizzaro World. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2016-08-04 08:48 |
| #1 How long is it going to take for them to blame the Juice? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2016-08-04 08:16 |