A child getting a polio vaccine at Toll Plaza, outskirts of Karachi. Polio is a highly infectious disease caused by a virus that can provoke permanent paralysis in a matter of hours. There is no cure, but there are safe and effective vaccines.
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A child is administered polio drops by a mobile unit during an anti-polio drive in New Delhi, India, Sunday, Jan. 15, 2012. India marked a full year since its last reported case of polio on Friday, Jan. 13.
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A Nigerian schoolboy is vaccinated against polio during a mass nationwide polio inoculation April 12, 2005, in Kano, Nigeria.
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A ten-year-old polio victim in Bangalore, India
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Bill Gates gives a baby an oral polio drop at a community health clinic in Andhra Pradesh
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POLIO: After a year-long hiatus, children in Nigeria are once again getting oral vaccines
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Teams Give Polio Vaccine in Massive Nigerian Innoculation
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An Afghan refugee woman waits her turn to receive a drop of polio vaccine for her child at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees supported Jalozai camp on the outskirts of Peshawar, Sept. 25, 2012.
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