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2024-10-21 India-Pakistan
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Sindh reports two new poliovirus cases, nationwide tally surges to 39
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[GEO.TV] Two fresh cases of the wild polio
.jpg "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...
virus type-1 (WPV1) have been confirmed in Sindh, raising the total number of countrywide cases to 39 so far in 2024, said the National Emergency Operations Centre (EOC).
The emergence of the new cases shows the extent of deterioration with regards to the poliovirus crisis in Pakistain.
Polio Eradication Initiative (PEI) officials, on Sunday, told The News that the two new victims are kids — a boy from Mirpurkhas and a girl from Sanghar. Both are the first known instances of the disease in their respective areas this year.
According to the PEI officials in Islamabad, Sindh is experiencing an increase in virus transmission, particularly after multiple environmental samples from Mirpurkhas tested positive for WPV1 earlier this year. After 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...
recorded 20 cases, Sindh has now confirmed 12, while five have been diagnosed in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and one each in Punjab
...1. Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2. A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3. A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots
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and Islamabad.
At least three children have also died due to the disease this year in Pakistain, according to National EOC sources. These victims belonged to 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 Balochistan.
The EOC sources said the child, Abdullah, who died of poliovirus hailed from Karachi's Bin Qasim Town in the Malir district. While the other two children belonged to Balochistan's Killa Saifullah and Quetta. 
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