ISLAMABAD -
Pakistan launched a brand new anti-polio drive on Monday, greater than every week after officers detected the third case thus far this 12 months within the nation's northwestern area bordering Afghanistan.
The marketing campaign -- the third one this 12 months -- is to final for 5 days, aiming to inoculate 40 million kids underneath the age of 5 throughout the nation.
Pakistan has beforehand carried out two anti-polio campaigns this 12 months, in January and March, after discovering just one case of the illness final 12 months, which raised hopes the nation was near eliminating polio. This 12 months's first case was registered in April.
An announcement from Dr. Shahbaz Baig, the spokesperson for the nation's polio program, urged mother and father to cooperate with polio employees within the door-to-door marketing campaign.
Pakistan's anti-polio campaigns are frequently marked by violence. Islamic militants typically goal polio groups and police assigned to guard them, falsely claiming the vaccination campaigns are a Western conspiracy to sterilize kids.
Through the March marketing campaign, gunmen in northwestern Pakistan shot and killed a feminine polio employee as she was returning house after a day of vaccinations. And in January, gunmen shot and killed a police officer offering safety for polio vaccination employees, additionally within the nation's northwest.
Pakistan and Afghanistan are the one remaining international locations on this planet nonetheless attempting to eradicate polio, which might trigger extreme paralysis in kids.
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