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The Taliban suspend polio vaccination campaign in Afghanistan
Shabana Maani, gives a polio vaccination to a child in the old part of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, March 29, 2021
POLIO vaccinations have been suspended in Afghanistan by the Taliban, the United Nations has said.
Afghanistan is one of two countries where the spread of the potentially fatal, paralysing disease has never been stopped.
The other is Pakistan.
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