How Afghan, Pakistani clerics battle polio vaccine misinformation
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A health worker administers a polio vaccine to a child in a market in the downtown area of Lahore, Pakistan, Sept. 9, 2024. FILE - A police officer stands guard as a health worker, right, administers a polio vaccine to a child in a neighborhood of Peshawar, Pakistan, Sept. 9, 2024. FILE - A health worker gives a polio vaccination to a child in the old part of Kabul, Afghanistan, March 29, 2021.
Maulana Tayyab Qureshi, the top cleric in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, has seen up close the devastating effects of polio.
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FILE - A health worker administers a polio vaccine to a child at a school in Peshawar, Pakistan, Sept. 9, 2024.
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