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| Polio cases: WHO recommends travel restrictions on Pakistan |
| 2014-05-06 |
| [DAWN] The World Health Organisation on Monday recommended strict travel restrictions on Pakistain due to the rising number of 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... cases in the country. The WHO said the spread of polio is an international public health emergency that threatens to infect other countries with the crippling disease. The public health arm of the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... , issued its new guidelines to fight the disease, recommending Paks traveling abroad should present a polio vaccination certificate. The WHO also recommended similar restrictions on Syria and Cameroon -- two other countries where the disease was previously said to have been eradicated but have recently been known to have been exporting the potentially disease. Pakistain is one of only three countries where the crippling virus is endemic. The other two countries are Nigeria and Afghanistan. In an announcement today, the agency described the ongoing polio outbreaks in Asia, Africa and the Middle East as an ''extraordinary'' situation requiring a coordinated international response. |
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