Pakistan’s polio paradox

PAKISTAN’S latest polio case, a seven-month-old boy in Khyber district reported on Nov 6, is the ninth of 2026 and the seventh in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It is another reminder of how elusive eradication has proved. After three decades of campaigns, billions of dollars of international support, a field force of more than 400,000 workers, and the creation of one of the largest polio programmes in…

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PAKISTAN’S latest polio case, a seven-month-old boy in Khyber district reported on Nov 6, is the ninth of 2026 and the seventh in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It is another reminder of how elusive eradication has proved. After three decades of campaigns, billions…

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