Fears Stop Pakistan from Becoming Polio-Free

Fears Stop Pakistan from Becoming Polio-Free

A recent report has uncovered that Pakistan had been politically covered with many fears and suspicions and the same has brought a drastic change in the improving picture of fight against polio.

Polio is a viral illness that usually attacks a person in the initial stage of his life and causes him to suffer partial or full paralysis. The efforts to eradicate the same have been going on since a prolonged period. India had even celebrated a polio-free year recently.

But, as per the findings, Pakistanis faced such rumors that led children of many of them to be left without vaccination. While for sometime the polio immunization campaigns were being called as "Western plots to sterilize Muslims", the other times, the vaccine killing the disease was being pronounced as ‘George Bush's urine’.

It is being said that such words used for the noble cause made people keep their children away from a preventive measure. Bill Gates says that Fahad Usman and thousands of other children like him have been suffering just because of fear and suspicion. He had heard that Fahad, 2, was crippled by the deadly polio when he could not even walk.

Gates Foundation worth $35 billion is still into spearheading efforts to vanish the disease. “We are working hard to depoliticize the whole thing”, said Gates.


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