blogs.wsj.com — Every month, thousands of volunteers fan out across southern and eastern Afghanistan, knocking on doors to vaccinate children against poliomyelitis. While children in the U.S. receive a course of four injections of the killed polio virus in their first six years of life, kids in Afghanistan are fed an oral dose of the live virus almost monthly.
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doctorsleepyJan 9, 2010
Something tells me there's about to be a spike in cancer and infertility in Afghanistan...as if that hell hole was unlivable enough as it is.
barackalypseJan 9, 2010
Except the letter isn't primarily for the safe passage of the distribution teams, its so the people getting the vaccine will accept it without fear of retribution by the Taliban for cooperating with the Government.
ptrcd003Jan 9, 2010
Who do you know that recently got polio? Exactly, so stfu
babywookieJan 9, 2010
I think we just found Osama.
babywookieJan 9, 2010
Or small pox.
Closed AccountJan 9, 2010
No vaccine is 'untested' you cretin. So you're either guilty of buying anti-vaxxer bulls**t, or you're guilty of spreading it. Ignorance or malice. The same combination of ignorance and malice is responsible for the rising death toll due to measles in the UK, so please stop killing our children.
Closed AccountJan 10, 2010
hauntedchippy"Vaccination should be compulsory."Now that is f**king scary.
tsw630Jan 15, 2010
Not sure if anyone has stated this yet, but a large portion of the money for eradication of polio has come from Rotary International, who made it there priority back in the 80s to rid this world of this disease. 4 countries remain: Pakistan, Afghanistan, India and Nigeria. Want to help? Consider a contribution to Rotary International's Polio Plus program.
grisziJan 23, 2010
This became mandatory after the invasion... a brand new virus never before seen in Afganistan began to spread to children... but thats not all they are fed orally.