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Health teams in Pakistan have been attacked repeatedly since the Taliban denounced vaccines as a Western plot to sterilize Muslims and imposed bans on inoculation in June 2012.
In North Waziristan, a region near the Afghan border that has been cordoned off by the Taliban, dozens of children, many under the age of two, have been crippled by the viral disease in the past six months.
And there is evidence in tests conducted on sewage samples in some of the country's major cities that the polio virus is starting to spread beyond these isolated pockets and could soon spark fresh polio outbreaks in more densely populated areas.
Polio is a highly infectious disease that invades the nervous system and can cause irreversible paralysis in a matter of hours.
The virus has been cornered to just a handful of areas in Nigeria, Afghanistan and Pakistan, the three countries where polio is endemic. Global cases have dropped by more than 99.9 percent in less than three decades, from 350,000 in 1985 to just 223 last year, according to the GPEI.
But so far in 2013, there have already been 296 cases worldwide. Forty-three were in Pakistan, the vast majority in children in the semi-autonomous Pashtun lands along the Afghan border known as the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), which include North Waziristan.
Four polio cases in children in Pakistan were reported in the last week. Because the virus spreads from person to person, the World Health Organization says as long as any child remains infected, children everywhere are at risk.
Read more HERE
The Taliban could also use the disease as a biological weapon by harvesting it.
seeker1963
Holy crap Batman, the government has convinced people to be so scared that they may believe the Taliban is ready to use Polio as a weapon????
By denying vaccine to a population that is seeing polio outbreaks, they are already using it as a weapon.
Ever hear of the Khmer Rouge?
It's right out of the playbook.
seeker1963
reply to post by badgerprints
By denying vaccine to a population that is seeing polio outbreaks, they are already using it as a weapon.
Ever hear of the Khmer Rouge?
It's right out of the playbook.
Mother nature has it's own way of culling the herd!
Perhaps if science had not been used for nefarious means, this post would have merit.
Unfortunately for mankind, our governments have chosen to use science as a means for destruction...........
Get it?
edit on 19-10-2013 by seeker1963 because: (no reason given)
Grimpachi
reply to post by Julie Washington
Would you care to test that theory on yourself?
By denying vaccine to a population that is seeing polio outbreaks, they are already using it as a weapon.
Ever hear of the Khmer Rouge?
It's right out of the playbook.
tigershark1988
Vaccines do very little to prevent diseases as any immunity gained is temporary at best. A virus or bacterium must travel through all natural avenues of your immune system for your body to gain a competent immunity, not be injected into your body with a myriad of harmful chemicals that can do serious damage.
opopanax
tigershark1988
Vaccines do very little to prevent diseases as any immunity gained is temporary at best. A virus or bacterium must travel through all natural avenues of your immune system for your body to gain a competent immunity, not be injected into your body with a myriad of harmful chemicals that can do serious damage.
I can understand mistrust of "the establishment," "the government," etc. and I would never assert that vaccines are a perfect solution or that they never cause harm. However, your claims here are simply untrue. Have you ever taken an immunology class? Do you understand the purpose of the various vaccine components (e.g. adjuvants) you're dismissing as "a myriad of harmful chemicals"?