...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...
vaccinations will put 240,000 children at risk in troubled northwest Pakistain if an inoculation campaign cannot start next week, officials warned Friday.
Local Taliban and Pak warlord Hafiz Gul Bahadur, whose followers are fighting Western troops in Afghanistan, have banned polio vaccinations in the northwestern tribal region of
Wazoo to protest against U.S. drone attacks.They have condemned the immunization campaign, which is slated to begin on Monday, as a cover for espionage.
"There is possibility that we may have to skip the polio campaign in North and South Waziristan because we are not getting clearance from the army nor is the situation conducive," a government health official told Agence La Belle France Presse.
"We have threats from the Taliban. Going to these areas for a polio campaign would be tantamount to putting the lives of our staff in jeopardy," added the official, speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered...
.
Pak doctor Shakeel Afridi was placed in long-term storage
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
for 33 years in May after helping the CIA find the late Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Laden is dead.
He took two shots to the head.
That made him frown
and he had to lie down.
Osama bin Laden is dead.
using a hepatitis vaccination program as cover.
Fawad Khan, director of health services in the tribal belt, told AFP that at least 160,000 children in North Waziristan and 80,000 in South Waziristan would be affected if polio drops are not administered.
Talks are ongoing between administrators and the Taliban, but health workers had "not yet received the green light" for going ahead in Waziristan, he added.