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India-Pakistan
Two more polio cases detected in Sindh, KP
2019-09-10
[DAWN] The daughter of an Afghan national 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...
and the grandson of a South Wazoo resident, known for his strong opposition to 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. Currently the disease is only found in Pakistain and Afghanistain...
vaccine, are the latest victims of the deadly virus, it emerged on Sunday.
Innocent child victimized by Granpa's ignorance and Karma
Both the children are yet to see their first birthday. With the addition of these cases ‐ one each from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh ‐ this year’s total number of victims of the crippling disease has reached 62, the highest since 2015.

Twelve cases were reported in 2018, while only eight children had been tested positive for the virus in 2017.

About the latest case from KP, an official of polio virology laboratory at the National Institute of Health (NIH), Islamabad, requesting anonymity said: "It was a clear case of refusal."

The victim was a 10-month-old boy. The case was detected in South Waziristan.

"The child’s grandfather was against polio vaccine," the official explained, adding that his father was said to be a labourer in Dubai.

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Posted by: Lex   2019-09-10 12:31  

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