Deaths follow wave of rumours and a hoax video intended to derail final push to eradicate the diseaseA federal government campaign to vaccinate more than 40 million children under five against polio in Pakistan has been suspended following a series of attacks on workers and police over the past week.
On 23 April a police officer responsible for protecting polio workers was gunned down in Bannu. The same day,a polio worker was injured with a knife in Lahore by a man refusing to allow his child to be vaccinated, citing a recent hoax video that claimed children were fitting ill after the immunisations. Related: Polio spreads in Afghanistan and Pakistan 'due to unchecked borders' Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com