[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Afghanistan has detected 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. Currently the disease is only found in Pakistain and Afghanistain...
in areas previously declared free of the life-threatening disease after immunization programs were paused due to the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...pandemic, officials said Sunday.
The polio virus has spread to three provinces that had not reported cases for up to five years, said Jan Rasekh, a front man for Afghanistan’s polio eradication program.
Balkh, Herat
...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns...
and Badakhshan have each declared a single case.
Although the number of new cases nationwide is lower so far this year - with 14 compared to 26 in 2019 - the location has sparked concern.
"We had worked hard for years and cornered polio to a limited geography," Rasekh said.
"The coronavirus has helped polio spread beyond its endemic region of south and southeast, and now threatens people across the country," he added.
The UN children’s agency UNICEF said last month that polio eradication drives had been suspended in dozens of countries, while measles vaccination campaigns were also put on hold in 27 nations.
There are only two nations remaining where the wild version of the polio virus continues to spread - Pakistain and Afghanistan - but a strain that has mutated from the vaccine itself has caused outbreaks in Africa.