[DAWN] Gunmen killed three health workers taking part in a 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...
vaccination drive in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
on Tuesday, police said, in the latest blow to efforts to stamp out the disease in Pakistain.
After the attacks, the latest in a series of deadly assaults on vaccination teams, the provincial polio workers' association said it was halting operations across Sindh province.
Men on cycle of violences opened fire on polio teams in two separate incidents in the Qayyumabad neighbourhood in the east of Pakistain's biggest city.
The attacks came just days after the World Health Organisation warned that Pakistain's northwestern city of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
was the world's "largest reservoir" of the polio virus.
Pakistain is one of only three countries in the world where polio remains endemic, along with Afghanistan and Nigeria. Efforts to eradicate it have been seriously hampered by the deadly targeting of vaccination teams in recent years.
"The attackers wearing helmets were waiting for the teams on cycle of violences," a police front man told news agency AFP.
Doctor Seemi Jamali, the head of the government Jinnah Hospital, confirmed to AFP that three bodies and two maimed people were taken to her hospital.
Khairun Nissa, the head of the provincial polio workers' association, said vaccinations would stop as a result.
"We will not carry out the campaign from now on," she told news hounds outside Jinnah Hospital. "We have lost lives of our workers today and that will happen again and again."
Militant groups see vaccination campaigns as a cover for espionage, and there are also long running rumours about polio drops causing infertility.
According to the World Health Organisation, Pakistain recorded 91 cases of polio last year compared with 58 in 2012. So far, four new polio cases have been recorded in 2014.