Laut UN haben die Taliban die Polio-Impfkampagnen in Afghanistan ausgesetzt
https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-taliban-polio-vaccination-campaign-suspend-9fc299a2e72dddf81f913da9f7f05e81
Laut UN haben die Taliban die Polio-Impfkampagnen in Afghanistan ausgesetzt
https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-taliban-polio-vaccination-campaign-suspend-9fc299a2e72dddf81f913da9f7f05e81
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Ah, heading right back to the dark ages as usual. Good riddance.
That’s going to be popular with Republicans!
They are under the false impression that the workers are trying to sterilize the children. I wonder if a public relations campaign by the UN to properly inform them of the benefits of what they’re doing could help
Welcome to Trump’s Project 2025
Hard to believe this is the 21st century.
We were a couple years away defeating wild polio completely from the face of the earth. The third ever disease humanity could’ve wiped out and it would’ve been one of our greatest societal accomplishments. Now, instead because of the situation in Gaza and Afghanistan, we’ve been set back a decade, maybe more, maybe indefinitely.
This news of great freedom from Afghanistan excites RFK Jr.
They sound like the Republicans in the US.
Well I’m sure that won’t have any horrible and completely avoidable repercussions
So the Taliban are going to take care of the Taliban problem themselves?
Okay :shrug:
Hmm, who does this remind me of?
> News of the suspension was relayed to U.N. agencies right before the September immunization campaign was due to start. No reason was given for the suspension, and no one from the Taliban-controlled government was immediately available for comment.
> A top official from the World Health Organization said it was aware of discussions to move away from house-to-house vaccinations and instead have immunizations in places like mosques.
Let’s hope that whatever differences there are can be resolved.
Regular vaccination drives are important and so far, the Taliban appear to have been cooperative.
This kind of shit ought to get a massive response. Stuff like opting out of polio vaccination is how you bring back an eradicated virus and will ultimately not just hurt their population but everyone else.
The Flinstones becomes a reality TV show. What a time to be alive!
It will work itself out
Seems like the world has started spinning backwards.
Ok. Have fun with that.
Back to the stone ages then.
And all this would make for a great dystopian novel if it were not for the fact it’s real and getting worse
Oh shoot are they doing their own research now too?
The silver lining – this will produce fewer Taliban recruits down the road.
They found out it was being given to women and girls.
let’s kill all the women and children in this country. then it will just be men. see how that goes
In my life, people have occasionally accused me of getting in my own way. On reflection, sometimes it might be true. Here, the Taliban is contantly getting in its own way. A dirt poor country where people can’t feed themselves, children are malnourished (fathers sell kidneys to buy the family food), and the human development index is close to the absolute bottom worldwide. And you have the Taliban, banning smart women from getting any education. They keep kids from getting polio shots, so that –in a poor country where you can’t really afford to look after kids paralysed from polio–, you have the Taliban banning polio shots. The US is a rich country, and was smart enough to start the march of dimes, which let Jonas Salk develop a vacciene and eradicate the spurge that is the iron lung. In Afghanistan? Let them drink polluted water and then breath their last out on the dusty rocks. Just wacked!
Hear that anti-vaxxers? There’s a place for you in the world! We will even help fund you to go there. Just promise you won’t visit back anymore
Common Taliban L
Why would they do that? How does that make any sense?
This exact article got posted in another sub yesterday, and I asked this question and didn’t get any answers – maybe I’ll have more luck here. Can anyone explain the last two paragraphs of the article?
>The oral vaccine has also inadvertently seeded outbreaks in dozens of countries across Africa, Asia and the Middle East **and now accounts for the majority of polio cases worldwide.**
>This was seen most recently in Gaza, where a baby was partially paralyzed by a mutated strain of polio first seen in the oral vaccine, marking the territory’s first case in more than 25 years.
(Emphasis mine.)
The vaccination campaign is responsible for most cases of polio worldwide, and is seeding outbreaks? That sounds more like an antivaxxer fantasy than something real; what’s the deal here?
Well this time the iron lung ain’t got to tell you where it’s coming from.
Who needs vaccination when u have allah?
Of course they have. I’m sure they’ll pray harder, let’s see how that works for them.
I have said this time and again, let these god lovers live like they want to. Let diseases ravage them and stop all the aid flowing there becoz you know they only follow gods book. So stop all vaccinations everything even food shipments because god will provide for them and we will be rid of these idiots in a few generations I believe
Make Polio Great Again! Or maybe make Make Medieval Life Great Again!
>The oral vaccine has also inadvertently seeded outbreaks in dozens of countries across Africa, Asia and the Middle East and now accounts for the majority of polio cases worldwide.
>This was seen most recently in Gaza, where a baby was partially paralyzed by a mutated strain of polio first seen in the oral vaccine, marking the territory’s first case in more than 25 years.
How did this happen? It seems like genuine ammunition for antivaxxers.
Taliban are so devoted religion that they are creating Hell on earth.
/slow clap
What, are they hoping the world will send them aid when an outbreak occurs?
So it looks like they haven’t suspended polio vaccinations altogether. The title feels somewhat misleading.
Polio vaccinations were carried out door-to-door, and now is shifting to site to site. In this case looks like the most common site is a mosque.
So instead of coming to you to vaccinate. You have to go to them. It’s going to have effects on gendered immunization since women are less likely to attend mosque.
My guess would be it’s a problem of having sufficient number of willing people to go door to door. No one from the taliban gave an announcement or was available for comment.
I don’t get how almost everything about the Taliban is just cartoonishly evil. What principles are they working from that makes them make the worse possible decision in almost every situation?
These guys are the Trailer Park Boys of governments.
Seems like a sound idea
Okay. It’s probably for the best for them to wipe themselves out.