[Dawn] Escorted by the security forces and officials of political administration, health teams administered 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...
drops to children in Sipah area of Bara tehsil in Khyber Agency
.| That's one way to demonstrate these are legitimate medical missions, rather than traitors seeking to reveal internationally wanted terror masterminds to their hunters... |
The political administration also deployed its officials on Tuesday and Wednesday to help the polio teams to reach those areas, which were inaccessible for them during the previous vaccination campaigns.
Agency Surgeon Dr Azam Wazir said that they were still faced with some resistance in few localities of Akkakhel like Fort Salop and Zaodin.
He said that local administration was making every effort to access maximum number of children in Bara under the age of five years.
However,
some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves...
some officials feared that despite all those efforts, about 30,000 children could not be vaccinated and they would be at risk of contracting polio virus.
They said that Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency was the only place in the entire country where they had found both Type-3 and Type-1 polio virus that had so far infected six children since start of the year 2012.
Meanwhile,
...back at the scene of the crime, Lieutenant Queeg had an idea: there was a simple way to tell whether Manetti had been the triggerman -- just look at his shoes!...
the Walikhel rustics of Landi Kotal on Wednesday refused briefly to vaccinate their children as a protest against power outages in their area.
Officials said that a handful of residents of Qayum Kallay stopped health workers from carrying out door-to-door vaccination drive to register their protest against power suspension.