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Experts: Syrian Polio Crisis May Threaten Europe

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As the polio crisis in Syria continues, experts are concerned that it may spread elsewhere. CNN's Atika Shubert reports.

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Polio virus strain in Syria confirmed as being from Pakistan - WHO (Y/Reuters, Nov 11, 2013)
http://yhoo.it/19X4uNn
"Polio that has crippled at least 13 children in Syria has been confirmed as being caused by a strain of the virus that originated in Pakistan and is spreading across the Middle East, the World Health Organization said. Genetic sequencing shows the strain found in Syrian children in Deir al-Zor, where an outbreak was detected last month, is linked to the strain of Pakistani origin found in sewage in Egypt, Israel and Palestinian territories in the past year...."

Vaccination campaign against polio, other diseases begins in Mideast (CNN, Nov 8, 2013)
http://cnn.it/HDebWF

Foreign jihadis responsible for polio: Syria (timesofindia, Nov 3, 2013)
http://bit.ly/HPhQkH
"A Syrian government minister said on Sunday that foreign fighters who have come to the country to wage jihad are responsible for the outbreak of polio in the rebel-controlled north. Last week, the UN health agency confirmed 10 polio cases in northeast Syria, the first confirmed outbreak of the disease in the country in 14 years, raising a risk of it spreading across the region. The confirmed cases are among babies..."

WHO: Polio cases confirmed in Syria (CNN, Oct 29, 2013)
http://cnn.it/16ImtCR

Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq 'suitable for armed jihad': Zawahri urges restraint in first 'guidelines for jihad' (brecorder, Sept 17, 2013)
http://bit.ly/1fyHVQh
"Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri has issued his first specific guidelines for jihad, urging restraint in attacking other Muslim sects and non-Muslims and in starting conflicts in countries where jihadis might find a safe base to promote their ideas ... Zawahri spelled out where conflict was inevitable, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Somalia"

Pakistan Taliban 'sets up a base in Syria' (BBC, July 12, 2013)
http://bbc.in/15mLJ14
"The Pakistani Taliban have visited Syria to set up a base and to assess "the needs of the jihad", a Taliban official has told the BBC. He said that the base was set up with the assistance of ex-Afghan fighters of Middle Eastern origin who have moved to Syria in recent years..."

Officials: Polio virus found in Egypt linked to Pakistan (egyptindependent, Jan 22, 2013)
http://bit.ly/WC9nST
"Pakistani health officials Monday called for infants leaving the country to be issued polio vaccinations at airports after virus samples linked to a southern Pakistani city were discovered in Egypt. Two sewage samples from Cairo were analyzed and found to resemble a recently discovered strain in the Pakistani city of Sukkur, a joint statement by health officials, the WHO and UNICEF said ... Though Egypt has been polio-free since 2004, authorities there have ordered the immediate vaccination of all children under five years of age in the areas where the samples were found. Polio cases in Pakistan have risen sharply in recent years, hitting 198 in 2011 — the highest figure for? more than a decade and the most of any country in the world, according to the WHO..." 

Worldwide travel ban on Pakistanis recommended (thenews, Dec 1, 2012)
http://bit.ly/Rv4ttg
"The Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) has recommended the imposition of international travel restrictions on every child or adult travelling out of polio-endemic Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria so that they do not carry the risk of polio with them to imperil the hard-earned status of countries that are now free of the crippling virus."No country should allow a citizen from any endemic polio state to cross their border without a valid vaccination certificate," recommends the sixth IMB report, which has just been released." 


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