[BETA.DAWN] A child has contracted 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...
for the first time in Pakistain's jihad boy-infested tribal belt since the Taliban banned vaccinations a year ago, a UN official said Monday.
"The new case has been detected in North Wazoo where we had been denied access in June last year," the World Health Organization's (WHO) senior coordinator for polio eradication in Pakistain, Elias Durry, told AFP.
Tribesmen in North Waziristan, Pakistain's most notorious stronghold of Taliban and Al-Qaeda linked jihad boys, endorsed the Taliban ban and stopped authorities from vaccinating children under a nationwide campaign.
"This has been the first case since we were stopped from vaccinating children in the region last year," Durry said.
The Taliban alleged that the campaign was a cover for espionage.
Efforts to tackle the highly infectious disease have been hampered over the years by local suspicion about vaccines being a plot to sterilise Mohammedans, particularly in Pakistain's conservative and poorly educated northwest.