Wazoo Agency, positive for 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...
, officials said.
Pakistain had recorded 91 polio cases in the year 2013 including 65 cases from Federally Administered Tribal Areas, 10 from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
nine from Sindh and seven from Punjab and became the highest infected country in the world ahead of Nigeria and Afghanistan, the other two polio-endemic countries.
"North Waziristan Agency, which topped the nationwide tally with 35 polio cases last year, has again started to show signs of the ban imposed by Taliban on vaccination in June 2012 in the face of four new cases from the area," officials said.
According to them, the vaccinators in the militancy-riddled Khyber Agency
didn't reach the children from where 20 cases were reported last year.Officials said that the virus was in circulation in the areas and non-vaccination of children for the last 19 months could prove disastrous for those un-immunised children, who stood exposed to the vaccine- preventable childhood disease.
"We fear explosive polio outbreak this year because 160,000 children remain unvaccinated due to the restrictions imposed by Taliban," they said. Taliban prevented vaccinators from administration of oral polio vaccine arguing those were tactics of the US to spy on her enemies.
Taliban said that the US engaged Dr Shakil Afridi to trace the late Osama bin Laden
... who doesn't live anywhere anymore...
in the garb of fake vaccination campaign, officials said.
According to them, the government is under tremendous global pressure to do away with the ailment as soon as possible but lack of security is hampering the plan to immunise the 900,000 target children in Fata.
"We reach about 70,000 children in every campaign but in the presence of un-immunised children, the virus will remain and can infect children till we administer OPV to all children repeatedly till they grow five year old," officials said.
Three of the four new cases, recorded on Sunday, belong to Mir Ali and one to Miranshah
... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a
ministatein centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas...
in the militancy-hit North Waziristan. The victims didn't receive vaccination.