[Dawn] Rawalpindi might lose its 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...
-free status in the coming days as the National Institute of Health (NIH) has found traces of polio virus from the city's sewers for the third time in the last three months.
Recently, the NIH reported that the polio virus had been detected in the sewage-water samples collected from the cities of Rawalpindi and Multan.
In Rawalpindi, samples were collected from Safdarabad area on August 25, while samples from Multan were collected on August 25. The report in this regard, which was recently issued, found samples of the virus in both cities of Punjab.
Similar reports had confirmed the presence of the polio virus in Rawalpindi in June and July this year, while the virus was last found in Multan in June 2012.
The samples were collected from Leh Nullah at Safdarabad between Pirwadhai and Dhoke Hassu and adjoining areas of Fauji Colony. In Multan, these samples were collected from Kot Abdul Fateh.
A Punjab health department official told Dawn that prior to the report, polio eradication activities in Multan were being considered satisfactory but the report had proven this wrong.
"If adequate measures are not taken immediately, the polio virus might spread from Multan to neighboring districts of Punjab including Muzaffargarh, DG Khan and Rajanpur in addition to the adjoining belt in Sindh from Kashmore to Sukkur and Larkana. It may even reach Jaffarabad division of Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
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