Today in Pakistan, 3859 mobile teams of para-medical staff will begin a push to immunize 44 million children across 156 districts in a nationwide drive. — Pakistan launches anti-polio drive targeting 44M children

Pakistan has made incredible progress toward eradicating polio. Travel back just 42 years to 1981, and there were an estimated 30,000 cases across the country; by 2021, it was down to 9 cases. Dive into the full data here. https://ourworldindata.org/polio

Globally, the story is even brighter, with total cases having declined by 99.99%. Afghanistan and Pakistan remain the only two countries with active polioviruses circulating. The final push toward eradication has been extremely challenging, but it may come before 2030.

Why is there a guy with a gun in the thumbnail, are they going to shoot polio?

Protection, the antivax crowd there will kill people administering vaccines

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Today in Pakistan, 3859 mobile teams of para-medical staff will begin a push to immunize 44 million children across 156 districts in a nationwide drive. — Pakistan launches anti-polio drive targeting 44M children

Pakistan has made incredible progress toward eradicating polio. Travel back just 42 years to 1981, and there were an estimated 30,000 cases across the country; by 2021, it was down to 9 cases. Dive into the full data here. https://ourworldindata.org/polio

Globally, the story is even brighter, with total cases having declined by 99.99%. Afghanistan and Pakistan remain the only two countries with active polioviruses circulating. The final push toward eradication has been extremely challenging, but it may come before 2030.

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NRA suddenly sits up

Not so much anti-vax more that it's just an unsafe area.

they are regularly killed if you don't know,vaccinators and their gaurds,the fact that USA used polio vaccinators to gain intelligence on bin laden does'nt help either

But not in the good way

God I hope this works.

I know it won't in remote north and such but...gotta hope.

Anti-polio in particular, in Pakistan. ISTR the way Bin Laden got found was some operation masquerading as a polio vaccination campaign. But also not not unsafe.

I didn't know that. Thanks

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My bad. The thing specific to Bin Laden was Hep B, but it bled over to polio efforts by association.

https://www.npr.org/2021/09/06/1034631928/the-cias-hunt-for-bin-laden-has-had-lasting-repercussions-for-ngos-in-pakistan

And by the looks of it, he doesn’t have a good relationship to simple gun safety either.

That's how you get polio shots. 1 shot, family, or full auto.

Oh great finally something good from the neighbour

It worked great for the CIA when looking for bin laden

Is it the same stuff in India that paralyzed 495,000 children?

That's a pretty big vaccine delivery device he's got there.