[Dawn] At a time when Pakistain is gearing up for yet another anti-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...
drive (Oct 24 to 26), health authorities on Wednesday confirmed six more polio cases in Sindh, including two detected in Bloody Karachi, raising the total number of polio cases to 27 in the province and 128 in Pakistain during the current year.
The latest victims, three girls and three boys ranging in ages from 10 to 56 months, reflected badly on the quality of the previous polio drives, said an official associated with immunisation activities in the province.Bloody Karachi has so far reported eight polio cases, the highest number this year, followed by Thatta (six cases) and Badin (three cases).
According to the latest countrywide data, Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
topped with 53 polio cases reported this year, followed by Fata (34), Sindh (27), Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
(11),
Punjab (two) and Gilgit-Baltistan (one case).Among the newly affected children, the first was Sharjeel, 10 months, son of Mulazim Hussain, resident of Sikandar Goth, Gulshan-i-Iqbal Town. The child who had the onset of paralysis on Oct 10 was in all given seven doses for immunity against poliovirus.
Another child detected in Bloody Karachi belonged to Gulshan-i-Gahzi in Baldia Town, who was given only one dose under routine immunisation, while no supplementary dose was given to him during any of the polio campaign. The child, Hidayatullah, aged 15 months, son of Sadiq Rahman, had the onset of the disease on Oct 7, said a local official, adding that he could be termed a strong case of rejection of polio immunisation.
The other four polio cases confirmed on Thursday belonged to Qambar and Thatta.
Mohammad Ali, 36 months, son of Abdul Waheed, a resident of Ghareebabad Mohalla, Qambar, had received one routine and 10 additional polio doses.
Kulsoom, 56 months, daughter of Mashooq Ali, who lived in Rozi Khan Kathore village of Qambar, had received none of the routine and 10 additional doses against poliovirus.
In Thatta, Bakhtawar, daughter of Babu Magsi, aged 36 months, was reported as the fifth victim of the poliovirus in the district for this year. She lived in Talib Magsi village of Chato Chan union council and had received no routine but 10 supplementary doses for prevention against polio.
Another case from Thatta, a 10-month-old girl, Erum, daughter of Gul Hassan Mangarhar, lived in Memon Mohalla, Sujawal. She had received not a single preventive dose since birth.