Pakistan Begins Another Nationwide Vaccination Campaign After a Worrying Surge in Polio Cases

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By Munir Ahmed / AP October 28, 2024 6:54 AM EDT ISLAMABAD — Pakistan began a nationwide vaccination campaign Monday to protect 45 million children from polio after a surge in new cases that has hampered years of efforts to stop the disease in one of the two countries where it has never been eradicated . Pakistan regularly launches such campaigns, but  violence targeting  the health workers and police assigned to escort them is common. Militants falsely claim the vaccination campaigns are a

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