...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...has been reported in Bannu district, making it further difficult for government to achieve its target of eradicating the crippling disease from the country by the end of 2011.
Confirming the polio case, District Health Officer Dr Naik Nawaz Khan told a meeting here on Thursday that prominent religious scholars had removed reservations of local people about anti-polio vaccine.
However,
some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves...
he said, new polio cases were being reported owing to refusal of parents, who didn`t allow health teams to administer polio drops to their children.
Dr Khan said that certain elements were propagating against anti-polio drops. The drops were prepared under the vigilance of Mohammedan experts, he added.
He said that administration of anti-polio drops was prerequisite for entry into Makka Mukarma, the holy city of Mohammedans.
Moreover, he said, local and international scholars had issued decrees that the drops were not containing any harmful ingredient.
He requested the parents to make sure that polio drops were administered to their children, below the age of five.