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Topic: Karachi polio killings:
Vaccination workers shot |
Karachi polio killings:
Vaccination workers shot
BBC [UK], by Staff
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Posted By:Attercliffe, 12/18/2012 6:34:53 AM
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| Five Pakistani polio vaccination workers--four of them women--have been shot dead in the country´s largest city Karachi, officials say. The victims were reportedly working with a UN-backed programme to eradicate polio, which is endemic in Pakistan. No group has said it carried out the shootings, but the Taliban have issued threats against the polio drive and are active in parts of Karachi. The attacks took place in three separate locations in the city. Meanwhile, a teenage girl was wounded in an attack when gunmen opened fire on a team of female health workers on the outskirts of Peshawar in the
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Comments:
But the Taliban are the nice people we´re negotiating with over Afghanistan. This can´t be true, surely. /s
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
JAN, 12/18/2012 6:37:15 AM (No. 9072133)
Obama´s ´peace partners´
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
altoona, 12/18/2012 7:02:19 AM (No. 9072159)
"If you see something,say something." How many of these somethings do you need to see before you say something, GOP leaders? Or are you on board with the taliban too?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
GreatGreyhounds, 12/18/2012 7:02:45 AM (No. 9072160)
How 7th Century of them...
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
HicksvilleKid59, 12/18/2012 7:08:14 AM (No. 9072164)
Religion of Peace.
More like sub-human reptiles.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
graniteman2009, 12/18/2012 7:39:36 AM (No. 9072196)
OK, let the epidemic grow. Slap a quarantine on the country and just let nature take its course.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
rabbit, 12/18/2012 7:50:59 AM (No. 9072216)
Check where polio is spreading. Is is spreading in a village and then folks come in to vaccinate? Or are folks coming in to vaccinate and then the polio starts spreading right behind them? There are a number of citings from India where the vaccine itself seems to have triggered cases of polio - likely what these folks reacted to.
If you have followed the recent whooping cough outbreaks, the vast majority was among those who had been fully vaccinated. We think of vaccines as a miracle cure...but they are not 100% effective. And some are far, far less than 100% effective.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
PeoplesRepublikNY, 12/18/2012 8:09:36 AM (No. 9072244)
Sandra Fluke should be weighing in on this REAL war on women any day now.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
JackBurton, 12/18/2012 8:20:44 AM (No. 9072262)
You know, if Obama hadn´t been so hell-bent on taking credit for nailing Osama, he might have kept that one doctor, and the doctor´s fact finding while distributing innoculations, a secret.
Four more people dead because Obama couldn´t control his pie hole.
And we have four more years of this garbage.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Bunsen, 12/18/2012 10:09:42 AM (No. 9072448)
As long as polio is anywhere it can be everywhere in a short time. We have it on the ropes and MUST erradicate it once and for all. Taliban be damned.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Attercliffe, 12/18/2012 10:33:26 AM (No. 9072503)
From the CDC site:
IPV: A Safe Vaccine
Thanks to the dedicated work of health care professionals like Dr. Jonas Salk, who developed the inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) in the early 1950s, and Dr. Albert Sabin, who developed the oral polio vaccine (OPV) in the early 1960s, the United States has been polio-free for over 30 years. OPV is no longer used in the United States but is used in vaccination programs of some countries around the world. Since 2000, the only polio vaccine recommended and used in the United States is IPV. Because it is an inactivated or killed vaccine, it cannot cause polio.
Wikipedia, for what it´s worth, says vaccine-caused polio causes 1 death in 750,000 vaccinations.
Again from the CDC site:
Thanks to effective vaccine, the United States has been polio-free since 1979.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Jonr, 12/18/2012 10:56:52 AM (No. 9072550)
You cannot deal, work with or cooperate with cockroaches like the Taliban and their belief system! These people are a waste of human flesh!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
nelsonted1, 12/18/2012 11:57:33 AM (No. 9072684)
These people are a waste of human flesh!
I don´t think they are human flesh.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Marzon, 12/18/2012 12:45:04 PM (No. 9072820)
#8 is quite correct. The taliban issued a statement saying the vaccination workers were spies working for the U.S. And who gave them that idea? Rambo Obama of course.
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