Pakistani Provincial Police Issue Arrest Warrants For Parents Who Refuse Polio Vaccinations For Children

New York Times: Pakistani Officials Issue Arrest Warrants Over Refusals of Polio Vaccine
“Determined to curb Pakistan’s polio crisis, police officials in the northwestern province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa said Friday that they had issued hundreds of arrest warrants for parents for refusing to vaccinate their children…” (Khan, 2/27).

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