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| Second Round of Polio Vaccination Begins in Afghanistan |
| 2014-10-27 |
| [Tolo News] The second round of 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 officially kicked off on Sunday and will continue for three days, officials of the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) said. All families are cautioned to vaccinate children younger than five. Fifteen cases of polio have been registered in the country in Laghman, Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. , Uruzgan, Khost, Farah, Ghazni and Kandahar provinces so far this year, marking an increase in the number of polio cases in the country. "The MoPH has started seriously fighting against this illness to eradicate it across the country," Acting Minister Suraya Dalil said. "I ask all parents to vaccinate their children to prevent this illness." Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, the pilot and the copilot had both hit the silk. Jack!Cynthia exclaimed. Do you know how to drive one of these things? Jack wiped some of the blood from his knuckles. No,he said. Do you?... First Vice President Sarwar Danish stated that the country's health care system is not regulated, adding that an providing equal supply of health services across the country is one the main challenges ahead of the MoPH. "There are some serious challenges left ahead of the MoHP. The new government has some strategies to provide facilities for people in remote areas." Families of children suffering from the disease have asked the government to attend to their problems. "'My son is three-years-old. I hadn't vaccinated him due to the lack of access to health facilities and now he cannot walk,"Noor Mohammad Din, father a child who has polio said. "I ask all parents to vaccinate their children." Polio is eradicated in most countries but seen in remote parts of Afghanistan, Pakistain and Nigeria due to lack of access to healthcare facilities as well as weather irregularities. |
| Posted by:Fred |