Two of the cases were from North Waziristan while the third was reported from South Waziristan. PHOTO: FILE
ISLAMABAD: Three children were diagnosed with poliovirus type 1 in Fata, bringing the total number of cases to 66 this year, Express News reported on Monday.
According to an official press release from Prime Minister’s Polio Monitoring & Coordination Cell, the presence of the virus was confirmed in three children.
Two of the cases were from North Waziristan while the third was reported from South Waziristan.
The children afflicted with polio are six-month-old Afsa Bibi and 22-month-old Waqas from North Waziristan as well as 22-month-old Romana from South Waziristan.
In almost all cases reported from North and South Waziristan, the persons have never received an oral dose of polio vaccine, the press release states. No polio campaigns have been conducted in these areas since June 2012.
The press release also mentions that 54 of the 66 cases of polio reported in the country have been from Fata. This tally includes 44 cases from North Waziristan, five from South Waziristan, two from Khyber Agency and one from Bannu.
Nine of the cases have been from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and five from Sindh.
These cases have been reported at a time when the World Health Organisation (WHO) has recommended that travel restrictions be placed on Pakistan, Cameroon and Syria for being the only three countries that are currently exporting poliovirus.
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The cowards can not take care of the Taliban who are terrorizing these people and not allowing them the vaccinate their children. These people are the victim of Pakistan inability cowardice to provide security to her citizen.
That vaccination continues to this day is not because of its 'assumed' benefits, but (1) because it yields millions of dollars profit to the Drug Industry, (2) because it is one of the foundation stones of Medical Science upon which they have undeservedly built their power and prestige, and for that reason, must remain in place, and (3) because the majority of the public, brainwashed by medical propaganda, and unwilling to think for themselves, blindly accept it.
Firstly, commercial interests are a major motive behind the vaccine drive, netting the drug industry millions of dollars annually. Eleanor McBean PhD (The Poisoned Needle) states:
"The vaccine business has continued to thrive in spite of its disastrous failure, for the mere reason that it nets millions of dollars for the promoters, and this buys power with governments and propaganda control over the masses who don't know how to think for themselves"."The propaganda in favour of immunization has won the minds of the masses and has influenced medical thinking, and government and international measures, relating to disease control. This has been at the expense of methods which might have raised the real level of well-being of the people at risk. This begins to impinge upon the realms of politics and economics, for the gains are great in this area, and the truth is not always palatable. The removal of the idea of protection, via immunization, and the implementation of expensive measures to improve nutrition in countries which can hardly make ends meet, would not be welcome themes for politicians, even if they could be made to listen to the facts. Leon Chaitow Vaccination And Immunization
There is total lack of governance by PMLN. It still thinks it is the responsibility of others to do their job, while they indulge only in loot khasoot, intrigues, nepotism, and corruption.
Where are Ch. Nisar and Nawaz Sharif? And whoever is the incharge of FATA? These individuals have no conscience.
@Ahmed I guess you need to brush up your general knowledge about IK. Please go to googlecom and search for the term "sehat ka insaf".
@Arslan: only words? Where is action? only dharna action?
@kk: Why did NS allowed IK to bash him why did he adopted wrong way of rigging to come in power.
@Jahangir Chauhan: People like you are responsible in the first place why we deserved the travel ban. But let's talk fact and figures. India managed to eradicate polio by extensive vaccination campaign. Same developing nation who was responsible for almost 50% polio cases all over the world in 2006.
Polio vaccination actually spreading polio in the masses and people are not aware in majority. A big conspiracy to spread deceases in common people among the developing nations.
IK is busy in bashing nawaz sharif and vice versa, no is concerned with suffering of common people
All PTI Haters!!
Do you have something to say to PMNL Govt. or do you just want to pin this one on IK too.
Long Live IK who has made a committment to the nation for the eradication of Polio from Pakistan
As usual, I'm waiting for someone to blame it on Imran Khan and call him incompetant without knowing that FATA comes Federal Government :)