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Two new polio cases in KP
 [Dawn] The National Institute of Health (NIH), Islamabad, has confirmed two more 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... cases in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... , said officials privy to the details. They said that reports of the two cases from the NIH were received on Sunday. The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa now has 12 confirmed cases of polio this year so far. The officials said that one-year-old Ilyas Shah, son of Ibrahim Shah, and a resident of Bashkata, Buner district, was tested positive for poliovirus. They said that the child had received seven doses of the oral polio vaccine. This is the second polio case reported from Buner district this year. They said that one and a half years old Ahad Noor, son of Noor Mohammad Din, was also tested positive for the polio in Nowshera district, the sources said and added that the child residing in Mohallah Yaqoob Garhi had also received seven doses of polio drops. Posted by: Fred 2011-10-13 |
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