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India-Pakistan
Girl becomes KP's second polio victim this year
2013-02-27
[Dawn] A three-month-old girl from Malakand district on Monday became this year's second 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 in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...

Local officials told Dawn that Khais, a resident of Umar Killey Badragai Union Council in Dargai tehsil of Malakand district, had tested positive for polio at National Institute of Health, Islamabad.

They said the tehsil hadn't reported any polio case for five years. The first polio case of the year in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa was reported on Feb 8 as a 13-month-old boy from Bannu district, Muzakar Khan, was diagnosed with polio.

The officials said no polio vaccination campaign had been carried out in the area for three months leaving many children, including the fresh polio sufferer, unimmunised.

According to them, last year, the province had 27 fresh polio cases, the highest number reported by any province in the country. Overall, the country's polio case tally was 58 last year.
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