Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/18/wo...stan-rise.html
After Years of Decline, Polio Cases in Afghanistan Triple in a Year
By ROD NORDLAND
Published: January 17, 2012
In a country where insurgents have for years attacked and killed people working for the government or the international community, a small army of vaccination teams connected to both has, year after year, fanned out through some of Afghanistan?s most dangerous areas, quietly and mostly safely.
Appointed by the government, paid for by international agencies and given free passage by the Taliban in one of the last three countries in the world where polio is endemic, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative?s 65,000 volunteers and workers had seemed to have nearly wiped out the disease ? until recently...
After Years of Decline, Polio Cases in Afghanistan Triple in a Year
By ROD NORDLAND
Published: January 17, 2012
In a country where insurgents have for years attacked and killed people working for the government or the international community, a small army of vaccination teams connected to both has, year after year, fanned out through some of Afghanistan?s most dangerous areas, quietly and mostly safely.
Appointed by the government, paid for by international agencies and given free passage by the Taliban in one of the last three countries in the world where polio is endemic, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative?s 65,000 volunteers and workers had seemed to have nearly wiped out the disease ? until recently...
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