The detection of 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 of 2012, not in any far-flung area of the county but in Punjab`s capital, has put a big question mark on the performance of provincial health authorities who are already facing allegations of taking inadequate precautionary measures against dengue virus that claimed more than 300 lives last year.
The emergence of the polio case in the second week of the 2012 becomes more embarrassing not only for the provincial health bosses but also for the country at a time when the neighboring Indian has started receiving appreciations from world over for having a period of 12 months without any polio case being reported there.
The United Nation health agency has already declared Pakistain a `high risk` country with regard to international spread of polio virus, particularly during large-scale traveling to Soddy Arabia for Haj and Umrah.
In its recent manifestation, the crippling disease has par-alysed an 18-month-old, Muhammad Bashir, son of Banara Khan, a resident of Darbar Madolay Shah Colony, Shahdara, Lahore.
The National Institute of Health (NIH) has notified the fresh pollo case in its report issued a couple of days ago.
A senior health expert told Dawn, requesting anonymity, the emergence of new case in Pakistain was a matter of grave concern as the World Health Organization (WHO) executive board was meeting between 16-23 January to review a report on polio eradication. The meeting would also discuss a draft of anti-polio resolution to be considered for the 65th session of the World Health Assembly in May, 2012, he added.
He said in the wake of the surfacing of the fresh polio case here, the WHO executive board might intensify international restrictions on travel to and from Pakistain.