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		Retric on Oct 7, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Global eradication of wild poliovirus type 2 decla... At this point I think it might be reasonable to simply pay people in that area to be vaccinated. We stopped vaccinating most of the world so the risks of an outbreak and in the long term existing vaccinations stop being as useful due to the disease mutating.

tsotha on Oct 8, 2015 [–]

The problem is there are some religious leaders telling everyone westerners are trying to sterilize them under the pretext of administering a vaccine.

It will be many years before polio is gone from Pakistan and Afghanistan. If ever.

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