Initiative In India Aims To Keep Country Polio-Free

BBC News: Eradicating polio one step at a time
“A few years ago, India accounted for half the world’s cases of polio. Today it is officially clear of the disease. This remarkable feat is largely [due] to an army of women who, one step at a time, have crisscrossed the country on foot to give the under-fives polio vaccines…” (Pandey, 5/17).

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