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...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...virus cases recorded in Pakistain this year climbed to 24 on Saturday after a two-and-a-half-year-old child from Sindh's Hyderabad was diagnosed with the virus.
According to sources at the National Emergency Operations Centre, the child, hailing from Hyderabad's Neronkot area, was left paralysed by the virus, marking the city's second polio case,.
The latest case in Hyderabad takes the province's total number of children affected by the current poliovirus outbreak to five.
The latest polio case comes a day after authorities had confirmed that a 10-month-old baby girl in district Kohat of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa was diagnosed with the virus, marking the northwestern province's second case this year.
The infant from Tehsil Darra Adamkhel had contracted the wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) that left her paralysed on September 12.
Before that, authorities had confirmed that a 30-month-old boy from Pishin, 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...
, was struck by the poliovirus marking the province's 15th case this year.