According to the recent
article, “Finding a Joint Front against Polio”, Pakistan and Afghanistan are
the two main countries that are affected from Polio Disease. Polio is a
condition in which it causes paralysis and the atrophy of skeletal muscles that
often result in permanent physical disability or deformity. In addition, after
many failed attempts to contain the disease both countries have decided to join
forces to find a way to wipe out this Polio Disease. Furthermore, the idea to
join forces between the two countries was made by the Technical Advisory Board,
which was an organization who was responsible for creating new strategies to
eliminate the disease on a global level.
Meanwhile, last year
Pakistan had the highest count of Polio cases worldwide, coupled with
Afghanistan who had only eighty children affected by Poliomyelitis. As a
result, the new plan between the two countries was to create a program to
vaccinate children who traveled between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Hence, the
immunization campaign was created with many locations to help prevent the
disease from spreading. Also it was created in hopes that if more people were
vaccinated that they could reduce the amount of people infected.
On the contrast,
Pakistan started to believe that Afghanistan was causing them both economic and
social problems and that the Afghans were bringing the disease to local
children in Pakistan. Also, many people of both, Afghanistan and Pakistan,
refused to get vaccinated and have their children vaccinated as well, due to
the fact that they felt the U.S. had something to do with creating the
vaccinations campaigns. Generally speaking, they felt that the U.S. was trying
to control the Muslim population. As a result, many people did not get
vaccinated and increased the risk of both keeping, and spreading the infectious
disease.
With that being said, it seems that if both
countries goal was to keep their society safe then they would make sure that
each person was properly vaccinated. Also, if Pakistan felt that the Afghans
were increasing the risk of spreading Polio, and causing there country economic
and social problems maybe they should have not joined forces. However, by
joining forces it gives each country an opportunity to decrease the amount of
people who become infected with the disease. Above all, Polio is a life threatening
disease and if neither country takes the proper measures to help prevent the
disease from spreading, it could cause great harm to their society and
drastically decrease their population, and eventually even wipe out their
country. Clearly, joining forces seems the best route to go, as far as
protecting society from this awful disease.
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