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Polio Workers Under Fresh Attack In Pakistan

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Health workers administering polio vaccinations came under fresh attack in Pakistan on Wednesday, a troubling development in a nation that remains one of three in the world where the disease has yet to be eradicated. CNN's Reza Sayah reports.

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Pakistan condemns anti-polio volunteers' killings
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/06/16/world/asia/pakistan-violence/index.html
"Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari condemned the Sunday killings of two polio vaccination volunteers in the country's northwest, calling their slayings "cowardly and inhuman." The workers were shot to death while visiting homes in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in northwestern Pakistan, police said. Islamic militants have targeted anti-polio campaigns since U.S. intelligence used a fake vaccination program to aid its hunt for al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. Pakistan is one of only three countries where polio remains endemic, with 58 cases reported in 2012, according to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. In a statement issued by his office, Zardari said the volunteers died in service of a "noble cause" and called for tighter security for the effort...."

WHO suspends polio drive in Pakistani city after shooting (al-arabiya, May 28, 2013)
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/asia/2013/05/28/WHO-suspends-polio-drive-in-Pakistani-city-after-shooting.html
"The WHO suspended its polio eradication campaign in a Pakistani city on Tuesday after 2 young workers were shot as they administered drops, the latest attack aimed at the U.N.-backed operation ... No group claimed responsibility for the attack, though many Islamists, including Taliban militants, have long opposed the campaign, convinced that the anti-polio drive is a Western plot to sterilize Muslims."

Pakistan 'policeman killed' guarding anti-polio worker (BBC, Feb 26, 2013)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21585291
"A policeman giving protection to an anti-polio programme in Pakistan has been shot dead, police say. He was shot while guarding the main gate of a house in Khao Killay village in Mardan district as a worker administered the vaccine inside. The killing is the latest in a spate of deadly attacks against vaccination workers in the country..."

Polio workers come under fresh attack in Pakistan
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/12/19/world/asia/pakistan-polio-workers-attack/index.html

Pakistan killings near Peshawar disrupt polio campaign (BBC, Dec 19, 2012)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20779388
"Two polio vaccination workers have been killed in north-western Pakistan in the latest of a spate of deadly attacks.The shootings in the Peshawar region left a vaccination supervisor and her driver dead, and injured a volunteer. The deaths brought to eight the number of health workers killed in this week's anti-polio drive. The three-day drive is now over..."

Karachi polio killings: Vaccination workers shot (BBC, Dec 18, 2012)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20767138
"Five female Pakistani polio vaccination workers have been shot dead in a string of co-ordinated attacks - four within 20 minutes across Karachi. The fifth woman was shot and wounded in the city of Peshawar in the north-west and later died of her injuries. A UN-backed programme to eradicate polio - which is endemic in Pakistan - has been suspended in Karachi..."

Worldwide travel ban on Pakistanis recommended (thenews, Dec 1, 2012)
http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-13-19184-Worldwide-travel-ban-on-Pakistanis-recommended
"The Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) has recommended the imposition of international travel restrictions on every child or adult travelling out of polio-endemic Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria so that they do not carry the risk of polio with them to imperil the hard-earned status of countries that are now free of the crippling virus..."

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