Global & Disaster Medicine

Quetta, Pakistan: A suicide bomber kills at least 15 people, most of them police, and wounds about 25 others outside a polio eradication center on Wednesday

January 13th, 2016

Reuters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2hqApLaWTw

Global Health Significance:  “….Teams in Pakistan working to immunize children against the virus are often targeted by Taliban and other militant groups, who say the campaign is a cover for Western spies, or accuse workers of distributing vaccines designed to sterilize children…….Pakistan and neighboring Afghanistan are the only two countries in the world where polio remains endemic…….”

 

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