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India Frees Itself of Polio

An anonymous reader writes "It's been three years since the last recorded polio case in India and health officials hope to officially certify India polio free in the next few weeks. 'Hamid Jafari, director of the WHO's polio-eradication campaign, says the agency's ambitious quest to stop all polio transmission by the end of 2014 is now within reach. If that is achieved, and no new cases crop up for three years, polio—like smallpox—will be officially banished from the planet. "India was one of the most important sources" from where the virus spread to other countries, said Dr. Jafari.'"

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  1. Re:Not so fast ! by Chrisq · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    "Well-educated" implies, among other things, the ability to rationally think about one's own religion.

    A strange definition, but if you go with it "Well educated Muslim" is an oxymoron. Also you would have to be clear that you count people with university degrees, doctors, engineers as "not well educated" when you say that Muslims carry out terrorist attacks because they are not well educated. Otherwise people might get the impression that the solution would be improving their level of education.

    I would suggest that for the purposes of communication yo just say the same as i do; Islam suppresses any thought or descent and makes people do bad things. Its a lot clearer than redefining "well educated" and then claiming that muslims are not!

  2. Oh yes, blame CIA for *EVERYTHING* !! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    One of the reasons for that was some IDIOT in the CIA apparently using a polio vaccination program as a cover for a covert operation in Pakistan

    Isn't it so swell that you get to blame CIA for *EVERYTHING* ??

    Did CIA plan the 9/11 attack or was it Osama Bin Laden who led the planning committee ?

    Was Pakistan offering a sanctuary for Osama Bin Laden, or was it CIA which pressured Pakistan to offer sanctuary for Osama Bin Laden ?

    Do you have a brain ?

    Do you know how to think ?

    Blaming the CIA for everything may be a trendy thing, but you sir are a certifiable *IDIOT* to blame CIA on their killing the health workers in Pakistan !