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Capital’s polio vaccination drive suffers after Peshawar incident
[DAWN] Parents in the capital’s rural and urban areas refused to vaccinate their 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...on Tuesday, the first day of a polio vaccination campaign, after the incident in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 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. a day prior. Hundreds of children were rushed to hospitals in Peshawar complaining of abdominal pain and nausea allegedly after being vaccinated on Monday. Most were released, and doctors at Lady Reading Hospital ‐ which received 300 or so children ‐ said whatever was impacting the children appeared to be psychological. Nevertheless, rumours circulated on social media about children falling ill and even dying after being vaccinated in Peshawar. In Islamabad, polio workers and teams faced difficulties on the first day of the vaccination campaign, officials from the capital administration said. Posted by: Fred 2019-04-25 |
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