[Pak Daily Times] As Pakistain becomes a country spreading 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...
virus to the rest of the world because of a Taliban ban on polio vaccination in the north, international donors are still desperately engaged to help vaccinate every child in the country.
While talking to media persons in Islamabad on December 5, World Health Organisation polio chief in Pakistain Dr Elias Durray said: "It is a matter of concern for WHO that polio virus has been travelling from Pakistain to other countries. Polio strains have been found in Egypt and then Syria." In a recent interaction with Daily Times, Michelle Kolempken, a senior media official at Rotary International and who is also a member of Global Polio Eradication Initiative, said: "Recognising the importance of religion and religious leaders in Pakistain, Rotary in Pakistain has created an Learned Elders of Islam (religious scholars) committee aimed at educating local religious leaders about polio vaccinations and other health initiatives."
Michelle informed Daily Times that after educating this committee of Learned Elders of Islam, "the religious leaders then return to their local communities and broadcast their support for vaccination efforts, encouraging parents to have their children vaccinated." According to WHO, over 24,000 parents in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
have refused to vaccinate their children against polio in a recent vaccination campaign held from November 18-20. Parents in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa have refused to vaccinate their children because of Taliban warning who have declared the vaccination as haram. Religious pressures and lack of education among parents is also one of the reasons for refusal to vaccinate their children.