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A world record nobody wants
EDITORIAL: The latest confirmation of Pakistan’s eighth polio case this year, in Khyber district, should provoke national shame. The child is a 13-month-old girl; six of the eight cases have been reported in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Pakistan and Afghanistan remain the only countries where wild poliovirus is endemic. That is a distinction no country should want. Afghanistan has endured decades of war and institutional collapse. Pakistan has its own security challenges, but it cannot explain away this disgrace by pointing across the border. The persistence of a preventable disease is, above all, an i...
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