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Khartoum Allows Polio Vaccine in Troubled States
[An Nahar] The Sudanese government has agreed to let United Nations...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... workers vaccinate tens of thousands of children against 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... in the violence-wracked South Kordofan and Blue Nile states, the world body said Thursday. United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan Ali al-Zaatari said the vaccination campaign would begin on November 5. Although Sudan was recently declared polio free, the virus has reappeared in east Africa. South Kordofan and Blue Nile are of "particular concern," the United Nations said, because no polio vaccination programs have taken place in areas controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement ? North (SPLM-N) since the rebels and the Sudanese government went to war in 2011. The U.N. says a million people are affected by the violence. Two weeks ago, the U.N. Security Council had urged Khartoum and the rebels to agree to allow vaccinations to go forward in the two troubled states, saying the health and livelihood of 165,000 children aged five and younger was at stake. Posted by: Fred 2013-10-26 |
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