Pursuits
Taliban Join Global Effort to Kill Off Polio in 2016
- Insurgents say they're immunizing kids in remote Afghanistan
- $11 billion spent battling crippling virus globally since 1988
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In the final battle against one of humanity’s oldest and most-feared maladies, an unlikely ally has emerged: the Taliban.
The insurgent group, whose anti-government attacks have stoked insecurity in Afghanistan and hampered vaccinators, is working alongside local and international health authorities to wipe out the last vestiges of polio, marshaling thousands of people to immunize vulnerable children.