Thanks to Taliban, polio returns to North Waziristan

[mota bhai 2,675]

ISLAMABAD: A child has contracted polio for the first time in Pakistan’s militant-infested tribal belt since the Taliban banned vaccinations a year ago, a UN official said Monday.

“The new case has been detected in North Waziristan where we had been denied access in June last year,” the World Health Organization’s (WHO) senior coordinator for polio eradication in Pakistan, Elias Durry, told AFP.

Tribesmen in North Waziristan, Pakistan’s most notorious stronghold of Taliban and Al-Qaeda linked militants, endorsed the Taliban ban and stopped authorities from vaccinating children under a nationwide campaign.

“This has been the first case since we were stopped from vaccinating children in the region last year,” Durry said.

The Taliban alleged that the campaign was a cover for espionage.

Efforts to tackle the highly infectious disease have been hampered over the years by local suspicion about vaccines being a plot to sterilise Muslims, particularly in Pakistan’s conservative and poorly educated northwest.

http://beta.dawn.com/news/812290/first-polio-case-in-waziristan-since-taliban-ban

[Karee 4,190]

I think they are still pi$$ed about U.S. intelligence getting DNA samples from Osama bin Laden's family via vaccinations. I guess they don't care too much what happens to their children. Let Allah handle it.

[GandD 5,966]

This Wiki has soon related info on past examples.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccination_and_religion

A shame people make these decisions for children.

[sandinista! 1,816]

Wales is currently in the middle of a measles epidemic too. Guess they don't care what happens to their children either.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

You can't even get some people to get a flu shot when it is already paid for.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

On a serious note, you still see young people with the effects of polio in the Philippines. That disease is far from being eradicated.

[Darnell 8,478]

Politics and medicine don't mix well. <EOM>

[Karee 4,190]

Wales is currently in the middle of a measles epidemic too. Guess they don't care what happens to their children either.

How many aid workers have been killed in Wales for vaccinating children?

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

How many aid workers have been killed in Wales for vaccinating children?

You beat me to it. Was thinking the same thing.

[sandinista! 1,816]

how many welsh drs have attempted to collect DNA samples from welsh children with zero consent, under the guise of a false vaccine program that left children vulnerable to a deadly disease, but led to believe they were protected?

both countries are experiencing public health crises. but the callousness of the responses when it comes to dead or maimed pakistani kids coming down with polio would never, ever be heaped upon the welsh or their children. not in a million years. somehow the ignorance and superstition that has led to the crisis in the UK is magically different than that of pakistan's. literate welsh not living in war zones get passes pakistanis in north waziristan never will.

the horrificness of murdered vaccine workers does not cancel out, or even have anything to do with the depravity of a spy agency fcuking with public health on any scale. it does not grant anyone, anywhere the right to piss all over the sanctity of medical ethics, and piss all over the rights of every human being to not be assaulted by medical personnel.

nor does it have a goddam thing to do with the derision and contempt expressed even for pakistanis at risk from polio who have nothing to do with murdered vaccine workers and nothing to do with taliban.

there's a reason why medical aid groups and public health officials have called this whole thing an unmitigated disaster, and it's not because drs without borders are fans or apologists of the taliban, or the WHO didn't really want osama bin laden to be found.

[Karee 4,190]

how many welsh drs have attempted to collect DNA samples from welsh children with zero consent, under the guise of a false vaccine program that left children vulnerable to a deadly disease, but led to believe they were protected?

both countries are experiencing public health crises. but the callousness of the responses when it comes to dead or maimed pakistani kids coming down with polio would never, ever be heaped upon the welsh or their children. not in a million years. somehow the ignorance and superstition that has led to the crisis in the UK is magically different than that of pakistan's. literate welsh not living in war zones get passes pakistanis in north waziristan never will.

the horrificness of murdered vaccine workers does not cancel out, or even have anything to do with the depravity of a spy agency fcuking with public health on any scale. it does not grant anyone, anywhere the right to piss all over the sanctity of medical ethics, and piss all over the rights of every human being to not be assaulted by medical personnel.

nor does it have a goddam thing to do with the derision and contempt expressed even for pakistanis at risk from polio who have nothing to do with murdered vaccine workers and nothing to do with taliban.

there's a reason why medical aid groups and public health officials have called this whole thing an unmitigated disaster, and it's not because drs without borders are fans or apologists of the taliban, or the WHO didn't really want osama bin laden to be found.

Nice try. Your blind faith of a certain religion has apparently interfered with your ability to use logic. Seems to happen a lot with that religion for some reason when a point is trying to be made. Not sure why.

[Tuco reminder 32]

Dear PRers;

I have similar stories from Australia, Wales, Denmark, Norway and even from USA when people from certain cult have erupted and killed one doctor and injured many others….

In Afghanistan and Pakistan, people are very highly educated, but maybe they don’t talk too much, and they don’t have to dress in suits to prove it… they have doctors, nuclear engineers….

If they ban such things, it doesn’t mean they don’t care about their children’s safety… on the contrary, they love their children, more than any other people in the world, at least because of the unstable environment around them, which makes them loser to each other for protection…

The reason is, somebody has used these ways to penetrate them, pollute their children, kidnap them for a better negotiation standoff and potentials…. UN and their buddies… sorry bodies like UNICEF have admitted that in Darfur Sudan, and promised to send some of their staff to trial.. but I am not sure if they did or forgot to do…

Afghans know what they are doing, they are not illiterate, they are smart enough even if their women are face covered……

With compliments

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Dear PRers;

I have similar stories from Australia, Wales, Denmark, Norway and even from USA when people from certain cult have erupted and killed one doctor and injured many others….

In Afghanistan and Pakistan, people are very highly educated, but maybe they don’t talk too much, and they don’t have to dress in suits to prove it… they have doctors, nuclear engineers….

If they ban such things, it doesn’t mean they don’t care about their children’s safety… on the contrary, they love their children, more than any other people in the world, at least because of the unstable environment around them, which makes them loser to each other for protection…

The reason is, somebody has used these ways to penetrate them, pollute their children, kidnap them for a better negotiation standoff and potentials…. UN and their buddies… sorry bodies like UNICEF have admitted that in Darfur Sudan, and promised to send some of their staff to trial.. but I am not sure if they did or forgot to do…

Afghans know what they are doing, they are not illiterate, they are smart enough even if their women are face covered……

With compliments

We've got a live one!

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

how many welsh drs have attempted to collect DNA samples from welsh children with zero consent, under the guise of a false vaccine program that left children vulnerable to a deadly disease, but led to believe they were protected?

both countries are experiencing public health crises. but the callousness of the responses when it comes to dead or maimed pakistani kids coming down with polio would never, ever be heaped upon the welsh or their children. not in a million years. somehow the ignorance and superstition that has led to the crisis in the UK is magically different than that of pakistan's. literate welsh not living in war zones get passes pakistanis in north waziristan never will.

the horrificness of murdered vaccine workers does not cancel out, or even have anything to do with the depravity of a spy agency fcuking with public health on any scale. it does not grant anyone, anywhere the right to piss all over the sanctity of medical ethics, and piss all over the rights of every human being to not be assaulted by medical personnel.

nor does it have a goddam thing to do with the derision and contempt expressed even for pakistanis at risk from polio who have nothing to do with murdered vaccine workers and nothing to do with taliban.

there's a reason why medical aid groups and public health officials have called this whole thing an unmitigated disaster, and it's not because drs without borders are fans or apologists of the taliban, or the WHO didn't really want osama bin laden to be found.

Public health officials in Wales are pulling out all stops to get this outbreak under control and do their best to protect the children and youth in the area. What is the Taliban doing in response to polio resurfacing following the halt of the vaccination program due to their murderous campaign against the program and those that administered it? Are kids now vaccinated against polio there? Yeah, I didn't think so. Give me a break with that nonsense!

[Tuco reminder 32]

Maybe they are not vaccinated… but I am sure they have more serious issues they have to deal with… they lost trust in the first, can’t blame them… looking for new solutions for others…