The spread of polio a worldwide emergency

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http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_MED_POLIO_EMERGENCY?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-05-05-07-18-35

LONDON (AP) -- For the first time ever, the World Health Organization on Monday declared the spread of polio an international public health emergency that could grow in the next few months and unravel the nearly three-decade effort to eradicate the crippling disease.

The agency described current polio outbreaks across at least 10 countries in Asia, Africa and the Middle East as an "extraordinary event" that required a coordinated international response. It identified Pakistan, Syria and Cameroon as having allowed the virus to spread beyond their borders, and recommended that those three governments require citizens to obtain a certificate proving they have been vaccinated for polio before traveling abroad.

"Until it is eradicated, polio will continue to spread internationally, find and paralyze susceptible kids," Dr. Bruce Aylward, who leads WHO's polio efforts, said during a press briefing.

Critics, however, questioned whether Monday's announcement would make much of a difference, given the limits faced by governments confronting not only polio but armed insurrection and widespread poverty.

"What happens when you continue whipping a horse to go ever faster, no matter how rapidly he is already running?" said Dr. Donald A. Henderson, who led the WHO's initiative to get rid of smallpox, the only human disease ever to have been eradicated

[OakWood]

This is just another example of more misinformation.

 

Polio could have been eradicated years ago. The vaccine is very effective, but because of Muslim superstition, terrorist groups such as the despicable Taliban have been murdering foreign vaccine medics because they don't want Western medicine. They suspect that infidels are trying to kill Muslims and think that the vaccine is some sort of poison.

Yes, I realise that the article mentions this but it downplays it. At the end of the day, it's not our problem. We try to help them but they don't want to know.

Of course, the politically correct mainstream media as usual are ignoring the truth and deluding themselves that polio is a result of poverty and deprivation rather than Satanic superstition.

So as if we're not throwing enough money at these people as it is by donating free medicines, now we're going to have to throw more money at them to try and overcome poverty, when what we should be doing is fighting terrorism and the evil cult that is Islam. Checklist the countries mentioned. Which one of them doesn't have a strong Islamic influence?

More lies, more junk and more misinformation from a cowardly media and from violent fanatics that have no respect for human life or health, not even that of their own kids!

Edited May 14, 2014 by OneLight
Acronyms are just like typing the words and just as unacceptable.