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A polio worker gives polio vaccine drops to a child in Islamabad. Pakistan is also the only polio-endemic country in the world where polio cases rose from 2012 to 2013.

What’s stopping some Pakistani parents from letting their children be vaccinated?

May 20, 2014Health & Medicine

The White House has pledged the CIA will stop using vaccination programs as a cover from spying. Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow Laurie Garrett’s says the pledge is long overdue and that distrust of health workers is already widespread in many countries. The White House has pledged the CIA will stop using vaccination programs as a cover from spying. Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow Laurie Garrett’s says the pledge is long overdue and that distrust of health workers is already widespread in many countries.