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| Nearly 40 kids infected with polio in Syria, Iraq: UN |
| 2014-07-23 |
| [Iran Press TV] Thirty-eight children have been paralyzed by 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... in Syria and Iraq since October last year and there is a high risk that the disease will spread further in the Middle East, the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... says. "It is now even more imperative to reach every child multiple times, and to do whatever we can to vaccinate children we could not reach in previous rounds," said Maria Calivis, regional director for the Middle East and North Africa at the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), in a report on Tuesday. The disease, which broke out in Deir al-Zor, the largest in the eastern part of Syria, has infected 36 people in the crisis-hit country so far. Most of the Syria cases were recorded in Deir al-Zor, but others were in Aleppo, Idlib, Hama, and Hasakah. "Right now we estimate that there are 765,000 children inside Syria who live in areas that are hard to reach. And as long as we don't get full and regular access to these children, the chances of polio spreading further will continue to exist," said Juliette Touma, a spokesperson for UNICEF. The two cases in Iraq are children living around the capital Baghdad. Between December 2013 and June, a polio vaccination campaign was launched in seven countries of the Middle East, which reached a record 25 million children, according to UNICEF and the World Health Organization. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 They weren't killing each other fast enough? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-07-23 13:00 |
| #1 Probably brought into Syria by jihadis from Pakistan or Afghanistan where Polio is still rampant thanks to the idiots who say vaccination is unislamic...I guess to the Imams, the good old days mean the 7th century. |
| Posted by: Bill Clinton 2014-07-23 11:00 |