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| Polio case detected in Charsadda as count rises to 23 this year |
| 2015-05-14 |
| [DAWN] A new 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... case was confirmed on Tuesday from the Shabqadar Tehsil of Charsadda, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... (KP), where two-year-old Muhamad Rahem was dignosed with the virus, according to Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) officials in Charsadda. With this case, the number of polio-affected patients detected in Pakistain this year has gone up to 23, of which 10 were reported from KP alone. Sources said World Health Organisation (WHO) and EPI officials visited Rahem's home and questioned his parents on the child's condition. But EPI's provincial coordinator for KP-- Dr Taimur-- did not confirm the fresh polio case. He did however say that so far in 2015, nine polio cases (excluding Rahem) have been registered in the province: five from 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. , two from Tank and one each in Lucky Marwat and Nowshehra. Pakistain's fight against polio has in recent times been marred by faceless myrmidons who target vaccination teams, especially in the northern and tribal areas of the country, where |
| Posted by:Fred |