Polio Vaccination Team in Afghanistan [PICS]

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Polio Vaccination Team in Afghanistan [PICS]

Every month, thousands of volunteers fan out across southern and eastern Afghanistan, knocking on doors to vaccinate children against poliomyelitis. While children in the U.S. receive a course of four injections of the killed polio virus in their first six years of life, kids in Afghanistan are fed an oral dose of the live virus almost monthly.

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Tags: Vaccination, Children's Health