The Express Tribune
Collateral damage?: Measles outbreak kills 12 children in Waziristan
By AFP
Published: May 15, 2012
MIRAMSHAH:
North Waziristan, which is infamous for its alleged Taliban and al Qaeda sanctuaries, is frequently hit by US drone strikes.
?For the past three weeks we are daily receiving five to 10 children suffering from measles,? said Dr Muhammad Ali Shah, chief of the agency headquarters hospital in Miramshah. He would normally see only one or two deaths a year from the disease, he said.
But another doctor, Mohammad Sadiq, said 12 children and a man had died from measles in the last three weeks, and that there were up to 70 confirmed cases in hospital....
