WHO suspends polio drive in Pakistani city after shooting, Taliban suspected.

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[QUOTE]PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - The World Health Organisation suspended its polio eradication campaign in a Pakistani city on Tuesday after two young workers were shot as they administered drops, the latest attack aimed at the U.N.-backed operation.
The victims of the shooting in the violence-plagued northwestern city of Peshawar were aged 18 and 20. Police said both had died, but medical sources said one had died and one was seriously wounded.
No group claimed responsibility for the attack, though many Islamists, including Taliban militants, have long opposed the campaign, convinced that the anti-polio drive is a Western plot to sterilize Muslims.
The United Nations in Pakistan pulled all staff involved in the campaign off the streets last December. Immunization continued in some areas without U.N. support although many workers refused to go out.
"They were administering polio drops when they were attacked," police officer Siraj Ahmed said.
WHO spokesperson Maryam Younas said the organisation was temporarily suspending its polio vaccination drive in Peshawar.[/QUOTE]
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They've done this multiple times in Afganistan. Apparently it hurts religiousity and weakens the sexual drive of men.

[QUOTE]Polio crippled thousands of people every year in rich nations until the 1950s. As a result of vaccination, it is now only endemic in three countries - Nigeria, Afghanistan and Pakistan.[/QUOTE]
I sure wonder why.. perhaps its because of all the Islamic extremism.

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[QUOTE=Rangergxi;40814808]Apparently it... weakens the sexual drive of men.[/QUOTE]

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But hey at least his sexual drive is unaffected

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Vaccination has to be one of the best things to happen for human health in the past century and yet people all over the world rally against it with reasoning ranging from the pseudo scientific to the religious. It's insane, nobody who lives in a country where these diseases have been wiped out would speak a word against vaccines if they knew the horrors that they prevent.