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Polio cripples four more in KP, Fata
[Dawn]  Four new 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 have been reported in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... and Federally Administered Tribal Areas, taking the countrywide number of the children affected by the crippling disease this year to 27. I;d feel sorry for the kids if I had any sympathy. The relevant officials told Dawn on Wednesday that none of the four children received any dose of oral polio vaccine. They said Mardan district recorded first polio case of the year as six-year-old Suleiman Islam, a resident of Mohib Banda village, had tested positive for polio. According to officials, the boy's family is a follower of local holy man Noorul Huda, who has declared polio vaccination un-Islamic. They said the people's refusal to get their children vaccinated against polio, especially in Fata, had become a major problem for local and international health organizations whose efforts to increase the rustics's awareness of immunisation had failed to bear fruit. Officials said the second polio victim belonged to Khyber Agency and he, too, hadn't got any dose of OPV. They said Hanifullah, 3, a resident of Akakhel area, couldn't be vaccinated as vaccinators had no access to his troubled area since 2009. According to them, he is the 10th polio case from Khyber Agency this year. Officials said the third new polio sufferer was six-month-old Naureen, a resident of Lakki Marwat area in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, who, too, was crippled for being unvaccinated. They said the fourth case was SLearned Elders of Islamn from Bajaur Agency, aka Turban Central ...Smallest of the agencies in FATA. The Agency administration is located in Khar. Bajaur is inhabited almost exclusively by Tarkani Pashtuns, which are divided into multiple bickering subtribes. Its 52 km border border with Afghanistan's Kunar Province makes it of strategic importance to Pakistain's strategic depth... , which also remained off-limits for vaccinators on security grounds. Officials said Fata had so far reported 13 new polio cases, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa six, 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... four, Sindh three and Punjab one during the current year. Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, Bossy had come up with a new idea... the World Health Organisation has expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... over 584,046 children missing vaccination during the last anti-polio campaign and said these children threatened the 35 million targeted population of immunisable ages. In a statement, the WHO said the children, who could not be reached during the countrywide immunisation campaign (July16-18), included 528,271, who missed administration of OPV, and 55,775 whose parents sent away vaccinators. According to it, Quetta reported the highest number of immunisation refusal cases (5,589) followed by Beautiful Downtown Peshawar (4,982), Pishin (3,568), Jacobabad (2,314), Karak (1,919), Bannu (1,886), Mardan (1,685), Charsadda (676), Multan (438), Gujranwala (383) and Abbottabad ... A pleasant city located only 30 convenient miles from Islamabad. The city is noted for its nice weather and good schools. It is the site of Pakistain's military academy, which was within comfortable walking distance of the residence of the late Osama bin Laden.... (318). The WHO said around 19,000 children in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa didn't receive OPV due to their parents' refusals. It said reaching out to every child was the only way to eradicate polio from Pakistain, which was among the three countries (Nigeria and Afghanistan) only where polio was prevalent. The WHO said Taliban had already banned vaccination in  Wazoo putting the health of 3,18,000 children at risk.Experts say July is the beginning of high transmission season for poliovirus and urged aggressive vaccination. "Last year, we had detected 72 polio cases as of August 1," he said. Posted by: Fred 2012-08-03 |
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