[DAWN] ISLAMABAD: This year's first 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 from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
has been confirmed, with Polio Virology Laboratory of the National Institute of Health reporting onset of paralysis in a 19-month-old child of Nowshera district.
With the new case, the total number of polio cases to be reported this year in the country has reached two.
An official of the Ministry of National Health Services (NHS) said sample from the child had been collected in January.
"The child, Abdullah son of Jehad Khan, is 19 months old and is resident of Shireen Khotey village, in tehsil and district Nowshera," he said.
He said the child belonged to an Afghan family and was administered at least 10 doses of polio vaccine during different vaccination campaigns.
The country's first polio case for the year was reported on Feb 5 from Gadap Town, 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...
. The affected child, Ijaz Khan, was 34 months old and belonged to a Pakhtun family.
"Malnutrition is emerging as a major reason for the disease because the immunity of the affected child from Karachi was very low," said the NHS official.
Last year, 54 cases of polio were reported in the country.
"We are still hopeful that polio will be eradicated from the country this year," he said. "We are not going to miss any child during the vaccination campaigns," he added.