Wars and instability pose vaccine challenges in poor nations
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DAR MANGI, Pakistan
Arifullah Khan had just administered another polio vaccine when the gunfire blasted from the nearby hills.
“It happened so suddenly. There was so much gunfire, it felt like an explosion,” he said, recalling details of the attack five years ago in Pakistan’s Bajaur tribal region near the Afghan border.
A bullet shattered his thigh, and he fell to the ground. His childhood friend and partner in the vaccination campaign, Ruhollah, lay bleeding on the ground in front of him.
Wars, instability pose vaccine challenges
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Polio vaccinator Arifullah Khan
DAR MANGI: Arifullah Khan had just administered another polio vaccine when the gunfire blasted from the nearby hills.
“It happened so suddenly. There was so much gunfire it felt like an explosion,” he said, recalling details of the attack five years ago in Bajaur, a former federally administered territory that is now a district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
A bullet shattered his thigh and he fell to the ground. His childhood friend and partner in the vaccination campaign, Ruhollah, lay bleeding on the ground in front of him.
“I couldn’t move,” Khan said. “I watched him lying right in front of me as he took his last breath.”
Wars, instability pose vaccine challenges in poor nations
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By: Kathy Gannon, Andrew Meldrum and Lee Keath, The Associated Press
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DAR MANGI, Pakistan (AP) - Arifullah Khan had just administered another polio vaccine when the gunfire blasted from the nearby hills. It happened so suddenly. There was so much gunfire it felt like an explosion, he said, recalling details of the attack five years ago in Pakistan s Bajaur tribal region near the Afghan border.
A bullet shattered his thigh and he fell to the ground. His childhood friend and partner in the vaccination campaign, Ruhollah, lay bleeding on the ground in front of him.
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The challenge of vaccinating millions of people in developing countries is a huge one, and it s not just the cost of coronavirus shots or the logistics of administering them.
The challenge of vaccinating millions of people in developing countries is a huge one, and it s not just the cost of coronavirus shots or the logistics of administering them. In some parts of Pakistan, vaccinating people can be a deadly job. Since 2012, more than 100 workers in polio vaccination campaigns have been killed. Arifullah Khan has experienced the danger at first hand. Five years ago he and a colleague had just finished administering a polio jab when gunfire rang out from the nearby hills.
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