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| Nigeria Revels in Removal from List of Polio-endemic Nations | |
| 2015-09-28 | |
...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... is no longer endemic in the country. Polio which can cause life-long paralysis can be prevented with a simple vaccination. Polio is no longer endemic in Nigeria, the World Health Organization said late Friday, leaving only Pakistain and its war-battered neighbor Afghanistan in the list of countries where the disease is prevalent. "It's a great moment for Nigeria," Dr. Tunji Funsho, chairman of the Rotary International's Polio Campaign in Nigeria, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named. "We should celebrate but with a caveat that we should not let our guard down." He attributed the success to teamwork between government and non-governmental health organizations. The main goal now is to increase the gains made and ensure Nigeria has no new polio cases in the next two years so that the WHO can declare Nigeria a polio-free country, Dr. Funsho said. "Until that happens we are not out of the woods yet." he said. Once stigmatized as the world's polio epicenter, Nigeria in late July celebrated its first year with no reported case of the crippling disease, having overcome obstacles ranging from Islamic murderous Moslems who assassinated vaccinators to rumors the vaccine was a plot to sterilize Moslems. Just 20 years ago this West African nation was recording 1,000 polio cases a year -- the highest in the world. The last recorded case of a child paralyzed by the wild polio virus endemic in Nigeria's impoverished and mainly Moslem north was on July 24, 2014. WHO said Nigeria and Africa as a whole are now closer to being certified polio-free. The agency warned polio remains endemic in Pakistain and Afghanistan and that as long as the disease exists anywhere "it's a threat to children everywhere." | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 Actually a wonderful thing to celebrate. Congrats Nigeria! |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2015-09-28 18:54 |