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Polio Vaccinator Shot in NW Pakistan
[AnNahar] Taliban gunnies maimed a 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... health worker in northwest Pakistain on Monday, at the start of a fresh campaign to vaccinate children against the crippling disease, officials said. Two attackers fired bullets at the vaccinator as he came out of a health centre in Shabqadar district, around 30 kilometers (20 miles) north of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. , the main city of restive Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... province. Pakistain is one of only three countries where polio remains endemic as attempts to stamp it out have been badly hit by opposition from forces of Evil and attacks on immunisation teams that have claimed around 62 lives since December 2012. Shafiullah Khan, district police chief in Charsada, told Agence La Belle France Presse the two gunnies on a cycle of violence sprayed the vaccinator with bullets, hitting him in the head. He was shifted to a hospital in Peshawar. The health worker was part of a three-day campaign that began Monday aiming to vaccinate around 2.7 million children in 21 districts against polio. A hardline breakaway faction of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP), TTP Jamat-ul-Ahrar, grabbed credit for the attack. The forces of Evil have in the past claimed that the polio vaccination is a cover for espionage or a Western conspiracy to sterilise Moslems. Officials say the number of polio cases recorded in Pakistain has reached 246 for the year -- a 14-year high and more than double the total for the whole of 2013. Among the new cases detected, 136 are in the troubled northwestern tribal areas that border Afghanistan and are the stronghold of Taliban and al-Qaeda krazed killers. Posted by: trailing wife 2014-11-25 |
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