[Straits Times] A top Unicef official says as many as 240,000 children have missed UN-backed vaccinations against 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...
because of security concerns in Pakistain's tribal regions bordering Afghanistan.
Dr Nima Saeed Abid, acting Unicef chief for the polio eradication programme in Pakistain, says health workers have not been able to immunise children in the North and South Wazoo regions - Taliban strongholds - since July 2012.
Pakistain is one of the few remaining countries, along with Afghanistan and Nigeria, where polio is rampant. Up to 58 cases were reported in Pakistain in 2012, down from 198 in 2011.
Dr Abid said on Friday that 15 health workers have been killed in the anti-polio campaign in Pakistain since July 2012.