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| KP plans aggressive anti-polio campaign from next month |
| 2014-11-18 |
| [DAWN] The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... Health Department has chalked out a new strategy under which it plans to focus on mobile population like internally displaced persons and run an aggressive communication campaign to ensure immunisation of children at risk of contracting 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 the low transmission season from December to May. The plan has been prepared by the health department in view of the rising number of polio cases in the province. It has planned to run 14 to 16 campaigns in 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. , Charsadda, Mardan, Hangu, Lakki Marwat, Bannu, Dera Ismail Khan ... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ... and Tank; seven in Kohat, Nowshera, Karak, Torghar and Swabi; and four drives in the remaining districts of the province between this December and May to boost children's immunity against poliomyelitis. Another feature of the plan is to vaccinate mobile population ‐ also including those travelling on long inter-city routes ‐ as genetic sequencing has shown that at least eight cases resemble with virus from the nearby Federally Administered Tribal Areas, which tops the national polio count with 158 cases. |
| Posted by:Fred |