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KEY HIGHLIGHTS
- Some Pakistanis believe that polio vaccination causes infertility among people.
- There have been 17 confirmed polio cases as of September 2022 in Pakistan.
- Pakistan is one of the only two countries in the world where polio is still an endemic virus infection.
Lahore: A polio vaccination crew was shot at by unidentified terrorists on Friday in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Due to this, 4 policemen posted in the security of the polio team were killed and two were injured. Officials said the incident took place in the Gul Iman area of Tank district. A police van carrying a door-to-door polio immunisation team was attacked by the assailants.
In many areas of Pakistan, people are against polio vaccination. They believe that polio drops cause infertility in people. Although the government has been trying to explain to people that this campaign is for their own safety.
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Locals said that an exchange of fire between the police and the attackers continued for a long time. No group has formally taken responsibility for the attack as of yet.
Attacks on the polio vaccination team have increased in Pakistan over the past few months. On June 28, an anti-polio vaccination team was also attacked in Pakistan’s North Waziristan tribal district, in which three people, including two policemen, were killed. On July 30, a police constable was shot by gunmen guarding polio personnel in the Daudzai area of Peshawar district in Pakistan.
In the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of northwest Pakistan, on August 1, a police officer protecting a team of anti-polio workers was fatally shot.
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Pakistan is one of the only two countries in the world where polio is still an endemic virus infection. The other country is Afghanistan.
There have been 17 confirmed cases as of September 2022 in Pakistan.
Despite more than 100 immunisation campaigns conducted over the course of the last ten years, the virus is still widespread. In 2014, Pakistan had the most cases of polio worldwide.
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