Health workers are often attacked by militants who falsely claim that vaccination efforts are part of a Western plot to sterilise Muslim children.
Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.euronews.com/2025/04/21/pakistan-begins-second-national-polio-vaccination-drive-to-protect-45mln-children
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Well, I’m just glad my government contributed to and validated these militants’ claims so they could execute a renal patient who went off the reservation after they funded and trained him. Now, children can continue to suffer and die from this entirely preventable disease.