“Disastrous” health campaign feeds Pakistan’s worrying polio spike

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Girl receives polio vaccine drops at a government dispensary in a Karachi slum

By Katharine Houreld KARACHI Pakistan (Reuters) – Taliban militants have long been the scourge of Pakistan’s polio vaccination campaign, attacking aid workers and the police who protect them as they distribute doses to children. “Pakistan’s polio programme is a disaster. It continues to flounder hopelessly, as its virus flourishes,” the Independent Monitoring Board, which advises agencies fighting polio, will say in a report to be released this week. Eradicating polio is not rocket science,” said Elias Durry, head of the World Health Organization (WHO) polio campaign in Pakistan.

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