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| Attack on Polio Team Kills Two Policemen in NW Pakistan |
| 2014-03-12 |
| [An Nahar] Two coppers guarding a 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... vaccination team in northwest Pakistain were were rubbed out by gunnies on Tuesday, police said, the latest setback to efforts to eradicate the crippling disease. Militant strikes and threats of violence have badly hampered a campaign to stamp out polio in Pakistain, which along with Nigeria and Afghanistan are the only countries where the disease remains endemic. Tuesday's attack took place in the village of Gandi Umar Khan, about 20 kilometers (12 miles) west of the nearest city of Dera Ismail Khan ... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ... , on the second day of an inoculation drive, senior police official Sadiq Baluch told AFP. Nisar Khan Marwat, another police officer, confirmed the attack, adding: "Two police officials were accompanying two local polio workers when four gunnies riding on two cycle of violences shot at them." The coppers was struck down in his prime while the polio workers themselves were unhurt, he added. According to an AFP tally, 54 people have been killed in attacks on polio teams in Pakistain since December 2012. Pakistain recorded 91 cases of polio last year, up from 58 in 2012, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Victims are left dead, paralyzed or with withered limbs. Pakistain's failure to defeat polio stands in stark contrast to its neighbor and great rival India, which recently celebrated the eradication of polio three years after its last case. |
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