Bill Gates Is Trying To Eliminate Polio

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Bill Gates Is Trying To Eliminate Polio, But Radical Islamists Keep Killing People To Stop Him

Michael Kelley | Mar. 1, 2013, 7:01 AM

Efforts like the one being led by Bill Gates and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg have reduced the number of children paralyzed by the polio virus from 350,000 in 1998 to fewer than 225 cases in 2012.

But the last remnants of the the debilitating disease must be wiped out in Nigeria, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, or else it will make a comeback.

Radical islamic militants are preventing that from happening by attacking clinics, health workers, and police who travel with vaccinators to administer the vaccine to children.

Earlier this month in northern Nigeria, armed men linked to Islamist extremist group Boko Haram killed nine people at a clinic after a local cleric denounced polio vaccination campaigns and local radio programs saying the campaigns are part of a foreign plot to sterilize Muslims.

The province, Kona, is now the epicenter of polio infections in Africa as it has refused to participate in the vaccination campaign.

In Pakistan a total of 18 people have been killed in the last three months, including a police officer who was escorting a polio team in the tribal areas in the country's northwest.

The cultural suspicions may be even messier in Pakistan where came to light that CIA hired a Pakistani doctor to give out hepatitis B vaccine in Abbottabad in March 2011 in an apparent effort to get DNA samples from Osama bin Laden’s hide-out.

"Boko Haram and the Taliban in Pakistan and Afghanistan share a common ideology and common strategy and ... their targets are similar," Shehu Sani, president of the Civil Rights Congress of Nigeria, told the Guardian. "Boko Haram have targeted police stations, politicians, religious clerics who speak out against them and people engaging in polio vaccination programmes."

The tactics have been effective as polio infections have doubled in Pakistan since 2009, new cases are on the rise in Afghanistan, and a polio virus traced to Pakistan was recently found in sewers in Cairo, Egypt (which hasn't seen a case since 2004).

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"There is only one lasting solution to this and that is to militarily defeat the Taliban once and for all," according to an editorial in the Pakistan Express Tribune.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-world-could-be-polio-free-2013-2#ixzz2MJbUT8jK

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

We still have anti-vaccination paranoia in this country, however, they had not resorted to destroying clinics. Give them time.

Edited March 1, 2013 by The Patriot

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We still have anti-vaccination paranoia in this country, however, they had not resorted to destroying clinics. Give them time.

All because of that one British "researcher". I think he should be put in jail for influencing all these parents not to vaccinate based on a completely unfounded link between vaccines and autism.

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All because of that one British "researcher". I think he should be put in jail for influencing all these parents not to vaccinate based on a completely unfounded link between vaccines and autism.

he should be "vaccinated" with hiv. except let's "forget" to make that virus dead first.

[Caryh 5,206]

All because of that one British "researcher". I think he should be put in jail for influencing all these parents not to vaccinate based on a completely unfounded link between vaccines and autism.

There are Christian sects also that refuse vaccinations or any medical treatment. They use only prayer.

But the big difference is they're not making that choice for others by killing doctors.

Edited March 1, 2013 by Caryh

[PalestineMyHeart 1,897]

Afghanistan + Pakistan + Nigeria = The Muslim World ?

Meanwhile, in Palestine:

Routine immunization against polio has been mandatory since 1965.

http://www.emro.who.int/polio/countries/occupied-palestinian-territory.html

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Afghanistan + Pakistan + Nigeria = The Muslim World ?

Meanwhile, in Palestine:

Nobody cares about Palestine.

It's not even a real country!

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Nobody cares about Palestine.

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.php?app=core&module=search&section=search&do=search&fromsearch=1

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It's not even a real country!

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The UN

So cute :luv:

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The UN

So cute :luv:

So cute... pretending it's not there and it will just go away.

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So cute... pretending it's not there and it will just go away.

It's not a country until God's own country (the USA) says so.

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It's not a country until God's own country (the USA) says so.

Keep smokin' the Ziojuana....

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It's not a country until God's own country (the USA) says so.

I thought God's own country was Yorkshire.

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I thought God's own country was Yorkshire.

You need to stop talking to commies and learn yourself some truth.

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So cute... pretending it's not there and it will just go away.

If the USA pretended it wasn't there and stopped footing their bills, it wouldn't be there.

And if the USA votes no (or China, or Russia), plus the country that claims and occupies the land says no, then it hardly matters how many vote yes. Its a symbolic victory, but it meant nothing on the ground. Wait it meant the people on the ground are now getting punished so some leaders could pat themselves on the back over their symbolic victory.