QUETTA (Pakistan): Pakistan began a special five-day polio immunisation campaign in the southwestern city of Quetta for children under five after a rare strain of the virus was found in sewage samples, officials said.
Local officials said they had recruited Muslim clerics to promote the immunisations for 400,000 children after past programmes were met with resistance and even violence by extremists.
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