Saturday, April 23, 2005

Yemen Polio

Polio has returned to Yemen. It is said it was imported by pilgrims returning from Mecca. The disease was nearly eradicated in early 2004, but has spread to several African countries and across Saudi Arabia.
Four children with polio have been found in Yemen.
The Yemeni government and the World Health Organization are planning immunization drives to get drops of oral polio vaccine into the mouths of all five million Yemeni children.
Polio had not been seen in Yemen since 1999 but a surge of new cases in Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Ethiopia made precautions necessary.
Saudi Arabia – one of the richest nations in the Middle East has brought the United States a wave of terrorism and now has crippled our economy with rising oil prices.
In the meantime – they are exporting death and disease to their neighbors without so much as a peep. This disease and others like it which persist within the borders of Saudi Arabia get less attention from the King than women smoking or men wanting to vote for a candidate of their own choice.
If a women is caught smoking she could be brought to jail and possibly tortured.
In the second case a man may be arrested and even tortured for speaking freely in public about his choices for elected officials – if they are not governmentally sanctioned.
Now the King’s ineptitude is laying children to waste not only in his own nation but across the continent of Africa.
Saudi Justice springs from American money.

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