[GEO.TV] The International Health Regulations' (2005) Emergency Committee, responsible for assessing global polio
.jpg "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. Currently the disease is only found in Pakistain and Afghanistain...
virus spread, has expressed concerns over Pakistain's efforts to reach a large number of children through its polio eradication campaign.
In a session convened by the World Health Organisation
...Kind of like the Center for Disease Control only run by the UN, with about the results you'd expectt...
(WHO) director general on August 16, 2023, the committee highlighted the gaps in Pakistain and Afghanistan's efforts to eliminate polio.
It emphasised that recent favorable environmental samples from Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 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 Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire...
and 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...
underscore the persistent risk of a polio outbreak in Pakistain.
The committee highlighted that a new case of WPV1 emerged in Pakistain since the last meeting, bringing the 2023 total to two cases. Both instances occurred in the Bannu district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province. Throughout the year, at least 15 environmental surveillance-positive samples were identified.
"Although the action plan in southern KP has resulted in 160,000 more children being vaccinated, the context remains challenging — including political instability, insecurity in some areas with front-line workers requiring police patrols to accompany them and vaccination boycotts, where communities make demands for other services in exchange for allowing polio vaccination," the committee further said.
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