Polio vaccination plan triggers killings, arson, public hysteria in Pakistan

Vaccine hesitancy has been identified as one of the top threats to global health, but in Pakistan the push back against inoculation has become a deadly concern. A government polio worker was shot dead today in an ambush in Balochistan province, near the Afghan border, and one of her colleagues was critically wounded. The attack follows the murders of two policemen in the country's northwest tribal regions earlier this week as they stood guard over vaccination teams. The killings bring the number of vaccine martyrs in Pakistan to at least 95 since late 2012.

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