PESHAWAR, April 26: Parents of about 4,000 children in the district of Swat are said to have refused to let their children be administered polio drops during a three-day anti-polio campaign which ended on Thursday.
A health official told Dawn on that a propaganda campaign launched by local clerics, spearheaded by Maulana Fazlullah was the main stumbling block in carrying out the campaign against the crippling disease.
At least 2,400 people refused to let their children be administered polio drops on the first day of the campaign. Local clerics called upon the people through their FM radio stations that polio drops were a tool being used by western countries, especially the US, to make the next generation of Muslims sexually impotent, said the health official associated with the campaign.
He said that on the last day of the campaign, people in Dewlai, Koza Bandai, Bara Bandai, Dherai, Qambar, Charbagh and Guli Bagh villages of the Swat district denied medical teams access to their areas.
Apparently the HIV virus spread to humans after the polio vaccine was grown in monkey kidneys, monkeys which carried SIV; a disease similar to HIV but one that affects monkeys.
oh there is this book by some writer named Z. its the ultimate paranoia spurring thing. however impotence and HIV are different? what is maulana basing his views on?
we would have gotten rid of this polio by now if these ignorant ba$tards allowed seemlessly. Mullah must be offering some alternative to polio vaccines. a person with polio would not get a decent life in Pakistan. even assuming mullah is remotely right whats the purpose of potency if you cant walk?
same happened to iodised salt compaign in Pakistan. they scared people that it makes men impotent.
they dont promote that sigrates and drugs addiction also do that. they just want little bit of attention. I doubt they are bio chemists backing mullahs claims who hardly went to normal school let alone any university or college.
Why are we sweating over some idiots following their idiot leaders.If they want to let them listen ....If not now hopefully in 100 years someone will learn something when they will have couple of crippled generations.
might be true..........................................................but who cares? no one got the time to check these vaccine to make sure that Mullahs are lying.
lol copy pasting from wikipedia again syed?... and theres nothing wrong with these vaccines, its just the backward cavemen mentality that these ayatollahs carry! These people should realize, every kid that gets polio because his parents were convinced by these mollahs not to get them vaccinated, is ka gunnah sab sey bar kar ho ga... And all you people supporting these mollahs in their anti-vaccine agenda, you are also helping end lives prematurely!
might be true..........................................................but who cares? no one got the time to check these vaccine to make sure that Mullahs are lying.
its not that hareem. he's making an accusation against government induced health programme. He should lay his cards on table. What is he basing his claims on? I am asking if anyone here is aware as to what he is basing this on?
When death confronts the moola, the honorable moola immediately runs to the nearest medical facility and given the opportunity flies off to more developed medical facilities in lands of the kuffaar. Then there is no debate where medicines originated, what vaccines are being given as long as the venerable moola life gets another extension.