Islamabad, 18 Dec (EFE).-four local workers of the vaccination campaign against polio in Pakistan died today February in several attacks in Karachi, in the South and Peshawar in the Northwest of the country, reported EfE sources officers.

three of the killed were working in Karachi, where shortly after noon local were victims of two assaults perpetrated with half an hour of difference by strangers on Board of a motorcycle, according to sources of the police in that city.

in the second of the attacks also wounded another Member of the campaign.

soon after, another young team of immunization in the city of Peshawar was shot in circumstances similar, according to police premises.

a source of the organism of the Pakistani Government that coordinates the fight against polio was stated to Efe that vaccination campaigns have been temporarily suspended in both cities.

< p> The fight against polio in Pakistan – only country, along with Afghanistan and Nigeria, where the disease is still endemic – has been surrounded by controversy since the taliban insurgency and some groups in the tribal areas of the country showed their opposition to it.

one of the main causes of that opposition was the unfounded rumor that a Pakistani doctor arrested for collaborating with the CIA on the location of Osama bin Laden in 2011 worked in a campaign against polio, although reality was against hepatitis.

last summer, the Taliban in the Pakistani Northwestern tribal areas threatened with attacking vaccinators against polio, but took his direct threat to teams deployed in that region of the country.

However, there have been incidents relating to vaccination in several parts of the country and the past July. a member of the campaign was shot dead in Karachi.

the polio is een besmettelijke virale ziekte die kan invloed hebben op het centrale zenuwstelsel en veroorzaken verlamming; Het is een ziekte die heeft geen genezing, maar waarvan preventie met behulp van een mondelinge vaccin is relatief eenvoudig.

volgens officiële gegevens, vorig jaar waren er in Pakistan 198 gevallen, bijna een derde van het totale aantal afleveringen opgenomen in de wereld, en in het midden van dit jaar als had 22 ondanks de inspanningen van de autoriteiten en gezondheid agentschappen ter uitroeiing van polio in het land. EFE