[Dawn] A fresh 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...
case has generated a controversy about the area it belongs to as the sufferer of the crippling disease basically hails from Bajaur Agency, aka Turban Central
...Smallest of the agencies in FATA. The Agency administration is located in Khar. Bajaur is inhabited almost exclusively by Tarkani Pashtuns, which are divided into multiple bickering subtribes. Its 52 km border border with Afghanistan's Kunar Province makes it of strategic importance to Pakistain's strategic depth...but lives in Rawalpindi.
According to National Institute of Health in Islamabad, Sanaullah, 3, on Tuesday tested positive for polio. He has received not a single dose of oral polio vaccine since birth.
"The child has been living in Rawalpindi for two years and therefore, the case is of Rawalpindi," Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) health director Dr Fawad Khan told Dawn on Monday.
However,
ars longa, vita brevis...
health authorities in Rawalpindi insist that the child belongs to Bajaur.
"Rawalpindi is still polio-free as we have not recorded any case this year so far," executive health officer of Rawalpindi Dr Randhawa said.
He said the child was shifted to his native town in Bajaur Agency two months ago and he might have contracted the virus there.
He said the child lived in Mandi Morr area of Rawalpindi but currently, he was in Bajaur.
Last month, World Health Organisation issued a red alert when traces of poliovirus were found in sewer water of Rawalpindi.
Chief coordinator of polio eradication at WHO Dr Elias Durry told Dawn that Rawalpindi was a known high-risk area where the immunity level of the community was low due to heavy population movements.
He said polio eradication programme had not failed. Last month, the world health agency had issued a red alert after founding traces poliovirus in sewer water of Rawalpindi.