In Pakistan, a polio vaccination campaign begins on September 9 in the province of Baluchistan, which borders Iran and Afghanistan. Pakistan is one of the few place in the world where cases of polio have been recorded, the disease having been eradicated elsewhere. But health workers in Baluchistan have to be escorted by an armed guard as several terrorist groups operate in the region, while many parents refuse vaccines for their children, believing they make people sterile or are an attempt by Western countries to spread other diseases.
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