Pakistan's struggle against polio is being undermined not only by the persistence of the virus but also by the violence directed at those working to eradicate it. Two policemen were recently killed and another injured in an attack on personnel assigned to polio vaccination duty in K-P's Mohmand district. Such attacks threaten the lives of frontline workers and jeopardise efforts to protect children from a disease that much of the world has already eliminated.

Compounding the problem are the myths and........

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