...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...eradication campaign are responsible for the failure to achieve the target of eliminating the poliovirus.
The world health agency stressed the need for joint efforts to make the country free of the crippling vaccine-preventable childhood ailment.
"As partner of the government in vaccination, we are accountable for polio eradication activities and there is strict accountability framework. There are many examples of termination of services and warning letters given for poor performing staff," Dr Nima Saeed Abid, the WHO representative in Pakistain, told Dawn.