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Afghanistan

5 Polio Vaccination Campaign Workers Killed in Nangarhar

2021-06-16

[ToloNews] Five workers in a polio
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...
vaccination campaign were killed and four more were maimed in five separate attacks in Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
province on Tuesday morning, said Ataullah Khogyani, front man for the provincial governor.

The attacks were perpetrated by unknown gunnies in Sorkh Rod and Khogyani districts and the city of Jalalabad, Khogyani said.

He said that two of the maimed are at death's door.

Khogyani said that special security measures were not provided to the campaign workers even though security agencies have been asked to cooperate with health workers.

So far, no group has grabbed credit for the attacks.

This comes as three women working for the polio vaccination campaign were killed in two separate attacks in the city of Jalalabad in Nangarhar province on March 30.

Figures by UNICEF show that 56 new cases of poliovirus were reported in Afghanistan in 2020.

The campaign is expected to cover 9.6 million children under five years of age in the country.

Khaama Press adds:

According to sources, this is not the first time that vaccinators have been targeted in Afghanistan.

It had also been reported that vaccinators were killed in Ghor, Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
and Nimroz Provinces.

From An Nahar:

The polio workers were bumped off in three different locations over two hours, in a "co-ordinated attack", Nangarhar police front man Farid Khan said.

"This is the work of the Taliban
Taliban

...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
, targeting health workers to deprive people of polio vaccines," he said.

Health ministry front man Osman Taheri confirmed the attacks.

The Taliban denied responsibility.

Polio has been eradicated across the world apart from Afghanistan and neighbouring Pakistain, where distrust of vaccines and eradication campaigns is rife.

Officials said two vaccinators were killed and one maimed in Tuesday's attacks in Khogyani district, while two were killed in Surkhrod.

In the other attack, three vaccinators were maimed in the quiet provincial capital, Jalalabad.

The vaccination drive in the province had now been halted, another health official told AFP.

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