Pakistan polio vaccination 17 7 2012

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Pakistan: UN doctor shot while giving polio vaccines

Shooting follows threats from Taliban to disrupt immunization campaign in protest of US drone strikes.

Pakistan: Polio vaccination workers shot dead in Karachi, Peshawar

Attacks follow Taliban's threats against anyone helping the "infidel" immunization campaign.

For Pakistan's polio workers, now threatened by militants, the job is a matter of life or death

Pakistan's health workers discuss the challenges and fears of working during a polio vaccine drive.

Pakistan is one of only three countries in the world where polio is still endemic. The Taliban's resistance to a vaccination drive is estimated to have denied hundreds of thousands of children protection from the disease.

NARINDER NANU

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