Pakistan launches anti-polio vaccine drive targeting 44M children amid tight security
apnews.com
- Pakistan launched its second nationwide anti-polio campaign of the year, aiming to inoculate 44 million children under 5 years old, as the country nears eradicating the disease.
- Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul-Haq-Kakar urged parents to cooperate with the 350,000 health workers going door-to-door to administer vaccine drops. This campaign follows previous attacks on vaccine providers and police assigned to protect them.
- Pakistan and Afghanistan are the only two countries where polio continues to threaten children, and the recent cases reported this year were from the border region with Afghanistan.
Comparison:
- "Left leaning sources" emphasize Pakistan's efforts and previous successes against polio.
- "Center leaning sources" note the campaign's security measures and parental collaboration.
- "Right leaning sources" point out past attacks on vaccine providers.
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I'm so damaged that i read anti-polio vaccine as anti polio-vaccine, assuming the article to be about yet another wave of antivaxx stupidity
Yeah the wording is weird. You wouldn’t refer to any other vaccine as an anti vaccine. Not sure why the author chose that specific phrasing. You wouldn’t say “oh yeah I went and got my anti flu shot last weekend.” You’d just say you got your flu shot.
Haha, anti flu shot, reminds me of a terrible joke
"I've tried every acne cream on the market, and i still have terrible acne! What's your secret?"
"I use anti-acne cream"
Same. And considering vaccine hesitancy due to how we caught bin Laden, I was actually expecting that. The wording is garbage. You call it a polio vaccine program, not an anti-polio vaccine program.
Lol same. To be fair, that’s a hilariously awkward way to express the concept - I feel like it’s intentionally confusing. The way people refer to “the vaccine you get to protect against some pathogen” is just a “some pathogen vaccine”. That’s it.