Despite threats, thousands join anti-polio drive in Pakistan
Reuters
16 February, 2016, 19:17
Update: 16 February, 2016, 19:17
A Pakistani health worker administers polio drops to a child during a polio vaccination campaign at Quetta in Pakistan on 15 February 2016. Photo: AFP
More than 100,000 health workers fanned out across Pakistan on Monday, stepping up a drive to eliminate the polio virus this year from one of its last bastions, despite continuing militant threats to vaccination teams.
Pakistan accounts for more than 70 percent of the world’s cases of polio, a virus that can cause lifelong paralysis and is now endemic in only two countries, Pakistan and Afghanistan.