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Polio Campaign Proves Ineffective In Pakistan As Nearly 1 Million Children Remain Unvaccinated
Nearly one million children were missed and more than 53,000 families refused vaccination during Pakistan's latest nationwide polio campaign, raising serious concerns about the effectiveness of eradication efforts, a report h
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Parents In Pakistan To Face Fine, Jail Term For Refusing Polio Vaccination To Children
Parents who refuse to get their children vaccinated could be sentenced to a month in prison and fined 50,000 Pakistani rupees (Rs 13, 487).
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Polio Vaccination Team Fired At In Pakistan's Balochistan Province
A polio vaccination team and two policemen escorting it were attacked by three unknown assailants in Pakistan's restive Balochistan province, the police said. The attack occurred in Quetta's Qambrani road area.
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Pak Woman Polio Vaccinator Shot Dead, Fourth Such Incident This Week
Gunmen shot and killed a female polio vaccinator on Thursday, the fourth this week in the latest surge of violence against efforts to rid the world of the crippling childhood disease, an official said.
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Gunmen kill Pakistani policeman on polio vaccination duty
Gunmen shot dead a policeman and wounded another on Friday as they headed to Pakistan's northwestern town of Topi to guard an ongoing polio campaign, officials said.
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Pakistan launches anti-polio drive in lawless tribal belt
A three-day anti-polio drive has been launched in the lawless tribal belt of northwest Pakistan to vaccinate over 220,000 children.
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Polio breaks out amid militant threats in Pakistan
Syed Wali desperately wants to immunize his three young children against polio but fears the Islamic militants who banned the vaccine from this remote area in northwest Pakistan will catch him if he tries to smuggle it in.
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Pakistani Taliban bans polio vaccination
A powerful Pakistani Taliban faction has said it will not allow an anti-polio campaign to be conducted in its stronghold of North Waziristan tribal region as long as US drone strikes continue in the area. The group led by commander Hafiz Gul Bahadur distributed a pamphlet yesterday that announced the ban on the government's polio vaccination campa...
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Polio Campaign Proves Ineffective In Pakistan As Nearly 1 Million Children Remain Unvaccinated
Nearly one million children were missed and more than 53,000 families refused vaccination during Pakistan's latest nationwide polio campaign, raising serious concerns about the effectiveness of eradication efforts, a report h
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Parents In Pakistan To Face Fine, Jail Term For Refusing Polio Vaccination To Children
Parents who refuse to get their children vaccinated could be sentenced to a month in prison and fined 50,000 Pakistani rupees (Rs 13, 487).
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Polio Vaccination Team Fired At In Pakistan's Balochistan Province
A polio vaccination team and two policemen escorting it were attacked by three unknown assailants in Pakistan's restive Balochistan province, the police said. The attack occurred in Quetta's Qambrani road area.
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Pak Woman Polio Vaccinator Shot Dead, Fourth Such Incident This Week
Gunmen shot and killed a female polio vaccinator on Thursday, the fourth this week in the latest surge of violence against efforts to rid the world of the crippling childhood disease, an official said.
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Gunmen kill Pakistani policeman on polio vaccination duty
Gunmen shot dead a policeman and wounded another on Friday as they headed to Pakistan's northwestern town of Topi to guard an ongoing polio campaign, officials said.
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Pakistan launches anti-polio drive in lawless tribal belt
A three-day anti-polio drive has been launched in the lawless tribal belt of northwest Pakistan to vaccinate over 220,000 children.
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Polio breaks out amid militant threats in Pakistan
Syed Wali desperately wants to immunize his three young children against polio but fears the Islamic militants who banned the vaccine from this remote area in northwest Pakistan will catch him if he tries to smuggle it in.
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Pakistani Taliban bans polio vaccination
A powerful Pakistani Taliban faction has said it will not allow an anti-polio campaign to be conducted in its stronghold of North Waziristan tribal region as long as US drone strikes continue in the area. The group led by commander Hafiz Gul Bahadur distributed a pamphlet yesterday that announced the ban on the government's polio vaccination campa...
