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July 30, 2012

240,000 Pakistani Children at Risk After Taliban Bans Vaccinations in Protest of U.S. 
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Relief officials in Pakistan are warning that some 240,000 children are
now at risk after local Taliban warlords banned polio vaccination in
both North and South Waziriztan. The Taliban called the move a response
to the ongoing drone attacks and the potential for espionage under the
cover of immunization, citing the CIA-backed fake vaccination program
that helped locate Osama bin Laden. Pakistan is one of one three
countries in the world where polio remains a large-scale risk.

 

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