ALTHOUGH Pakistan recently announced its first National Vaccine Policy, it will take time before the immunity gap can be plugged. After clinical and epidemiological data exposed the country’s “catastrophically high volume of zero-dose children” in the WHO’s Eastern Mediterranean Region, with immunisation systems bypassing 651,000 infants, the Pakistan Medical Association has declared a national public health emergency, warning against the large-scale resurgence of preventable childhood mortality. Wild outbreaks now........

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