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India-Pakistan
Three fresh cases raise year's polio count to 16
2015-03-08
[DAWN] Three more cases have been confirmed by the Polio Virology Laboratory at the National Institute of Health, raising this year's count to 16.

A Ministry of National Health Services official said the new cases were reported from Loralai in 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...
, Dadu in Sindh and Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
He said the detection was surprising because during winter 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...
virus became less active because of low temperature.

In 2015, seven cases have been reported from KP, five from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas and two each from Sindh and Balochistan.

On March 4, the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced that international travel restriction for Pak nationals had been extended for another three months because the country had failed to stop "exporting" poliovirus.
Posted by:Fred

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