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this area is one of the last parts of the world where this is still a problem. i ve seen it firsthand on one of my previous trips to india ten years ago. i spent time then with health care workers who were going door to door giving out drops of polio vaccine. this is maratabad, northern india, and you can see some conditions that might lead to the spread of polio. first of all, the water. you can see how dirty it is. where are we going here? the household of the family. we also stopped at a clinic where a nurse was tending to a line of small children. first, a shot to prevent tetanus, diphtheria and whooping cough. and then the polio drops. to be effective, the child needs to get the drops on at least four separate occasions. it will take millions of dollars and it will take millions of people as well, but what it comes down to is going house to house and taking these children and making sure they get that polio vaccine, and then documenting in chalk outside
attacks. i ve seen this type of violence in so many places around the world and i ve also seen how harmful this type of instability can be on the health of a nation. case in point the international campaign to wipe out polio. this area is one of the last parts of the world where this is still a problem. i ve seen it first hand on one of my previous trips to india ten years ago. i spent time then with health care workers who were going door to door giving out drops of polio vaccine. this is northern indian and you can see some of the conditions here that might lead to the spread of polio, first of all the water. you can see how dirty it is. where are we going here? the household of the family. we also stopped at a clinic where a nurse was tending to a line of small children. first, a shot to prevent tetanus, diphtheria and whooping cough. and then the polio drops. to be effective the child needs to get the drops on at least