India’s battle to end polio
In India, one of four countries where polio remains endemic, a flood of health workers are visiting millions of homes in hopes of inoculating 172 million children.
Muslim clerics finally embrace polio campaign
Muslim clerics in Nigeria who formerly denounced polio vaccines as a Western plot are now promoting the inoculations to avoid worsening rates and spread of the crippling disease. Full story
Man with polio wins case against drug maker
A New York man with polio has won a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against a drug maker claiming he contracted the disease 30 years ago from the polio vaccine given to his infant daughter. Full story
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An Indian child is administered polio vaccine during a polio eradication campaign
An Indian child is administered polio vaccine during a polio eradication campaign in Bangalore, India on Jan. 23.
A health worker gives a child an oral polio vaccine in Kano, Nigeria.
**ADVANCE FOR MONDAY, MARCH 23** A health worker gives a child an oral polio vaccine in Kano, Nigeria, Friday, Nov. 28. 2008. Even as health authorities seek to eradicate polio from the globe, infections are on the rise again in Nigeria, where an outbreak several years ago reintroduced polio back in
