[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) officials have informed of 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...
cases identified in eastern 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..
province of Afghanistan.
MoPH front man Wahidullah Mayar said the three new polio cases were identified in Achin and Shirzad districts.
The two districts are among the most volatile districts of Nangarhar province where anti-government armed bad boy groups including the newly emerged ISIS loyalists are actively operating.
This comes as at least three children have been diagnosed with polio in Kandahar city, Dund and Panjwai districts last year.
According to the local government officials one of the children diagnosed with polio had repatriated to Kandahar from 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...
city of Pakistain, while two others have moved to Kandahar from Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
and Uruzgan provinces.
Although polio has been eradicated from many countries, the disease remains rife in Afghanistan and Pakistain.
The polio strain in Afghanistan and Pak is identical where over 1.5 million children crossing the frontier every year, with cross-border transmission remaining an inevitable eventuality.
Currently Afghan health workers are positioned at the border crossings in an attempt to monitor all children who cross, vaccinating any who are at risk of contracting the disease.
However,
if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning...
many people do not cross the border at formal customs posts, choosing instead to use tracks across the mountains and deserts. This makes it increasingly difficult for health workers to identify any potential health risks