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India-Pakistan
Two more polio cases confirmed
2008-07-30
Two new polio cases have been confirmed in Pakistan, bringing the total number of sufferers of the crippling disease in the country to 20 this year, health officials said on Tuesday.
"The parents had refused to give vaccination drops to their son."
The first of the latest cases was confirmed in Nawagai village in the restive Bajaur tribal district in a 16-month-old boy, and the second was detected in a 10-month-old boy in southwestern Balochistan. "A case of P3 polio virus has been confirmed in Nawagai. The parents had refused to give vaccination drops to their son," district support officer Hameedur Rehman told reporters. Bajaur is one of seven Pakistani tribal areas where many locals believe polio vaccinations are intended to reduce the Muslim population.
Posted by:Fred

#9  Which brings me to a related issue, the Jenny McCarthy- Don Imus anti-vaccination Luddites in the US. The US is about to rediscover the joys of say ... Diphtheria and Pertussis.
Posted by: Woozle Unusosing8053   2008-07-30 16:43  

#8  

WARNING
Stank Pandemic Raging Out From Pakland


Islamic Halitosis Copiously Expressed with Conjunctive Rat Rabies Has Now Vectored Itself On Terminal Beard Mold!

It's The Next Deadly Pakland Pandemic Folks With No Remedy In Sight..We're Doomed!
Posted by: New York Times   2008-07-30 15:27  

#7  What's next, smallpox?

Leprosy. Also caused by "girl cooties"...
Posted by: tu3031   2008-07-30 09:47  

#6  Let 'em die. If they want to be backward, it's their concern.

The problem is when they start spreading these diseases *here*.
Posted by: Wholuling Lumplump6891   2008-07-30 08:50  

#5  Yeh blame the j00's for saving lives . Muslim logic all over
Posted by: Mad Eye   2008-07-30 06:55  

#4  Mad Eye, because the polio vaccinations were created by two Jewish gentlemen named Salk and Sabin.

(Or maybe they think the polio virus is where babies come from. Who the hell knows?)
Posted by: Swamp Blondie in the Cornfields   2008-07-30 06:25  

#3  They are too busy seething to care about healthcare .

Erwin Popper and Karl Landsteiner are probably turning in their graves a century after they first isolated the virus

"Bajaur is one of seven Pakistani tribal areas where many locals believe polio vaccinations are intended to reduce the Muslim population." - I wonder how they came to that conclusion !!!! Geez
Posted by: Mad Eye   2008-07-30 05:42  

#2  How come polio is endemic only in Islamic countries? Is Allan mad at those guys or something?
Posted by: SteveS   2008-07-30 01:46  

#1  Fecking Pakis now have reintroduced a disease which by all accounts should be completely eliminated. What's next, smallpox?

Posted by: OldSpook   2008-07-30 01:40  

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