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Tomorrow, 260,000 mainly female polio workers will start to vaccinate over 39 million kids across Pakistan. It's one of the most dangerous jobs in the world - more polio workers are killed annually (~100) than there are cases of polio (~30)https://twitter.com/PakFightsPolio/status/1087016906920345601 …
260,000 polio workers will go door-to-door in every village across Pakistan to reach 39m unvaccinated kids. They stop cars at checkpoints to check for unvaccinated kids. They carry refrigerated vaccines, where there's no electricity, across mountains by hand, donkey and canoe
Polio vaccination is a herculean effort, and to eradicate the disease, we have to reach every last child with 2 drops of cold-chained (refrigerated) vaccine. No matter where they live. Only two countries still have polio - Pakistan and Afghanistan. There were 30 cases in 2018
Here, polio workers in Pakistan literally stop cars at polio checkpoints, to find unvaccinated kids (which is a dangerous task in many places). Polio is incredibly contagious. One unvaccinated child can spread polio to at least 15 others https://twitter.com/babarbinatta/status/1086603974227251200 …
This is what polio vaccination looks like - carrying styrofoam (insulated) containers through snowy mountain passes by hand, to reach every last child, no matter where they livehttps://twitter.com/WHOPakistan/status/1084741618589200385 …
Women vaccinators delivering polio vaccines through the Khyber Pass. Heroes, the pair of themhttps://twitter.com/PakFightsPolio/status/1084396934088007681 …
In the next five days, 260,000 polio vaccinators will immunize 39 million kids across Pakistan. A herculean feat, never mind with extreme weather, fractured health systems, kids whose births were never registered, and vaccine hesitancy. Heroes, you allhttps://twitter.com/PakFightsPolio/status/1087256578909032448 …
Is there any way to provide financial support?
You can buy polio vaccines through UNICEF (this is the Canadian link https://shop.unicef.ca/polio-vaccines ), or your local rotary also has a big role in polio vaccination and would love financial support
And let's not forget that the CIA got caught in Pakistan using operatives disguised as health workers doing vaccinations. That's one reason why it's so dangerous.
Yup. We did not cover ourselves in glory there. It was already dangerous. That made it worse.
Maybe this is a sign that things are better, or people understand the situation better. <crosses fingers>
I think it's more a sign of true heroism...
I think you've probably got the right end of this. I think what those women are doing is immensely brave.
Can we send anti vaxxers to Pakistan. Some of them could get polio and perhaps learn why we have vaccination programs. That polio still exists in Pakistan is a tragedy. That people question vaccinations is worse. We haven’t had polio in Australia for decades because of vaccines.
Their selfish mindset means that they don't understand that being vaccinated isn't about *themselves* but is about protecting *others* from themselves. RWNJ cult thinking hurts our society in so many ways!
There are neither Polio nor some of highly infectious diseases vaccination programs in Syria, Bangladesh, Yemen, Somalia, both Congo’s, North Korea, Venezuela, plus tens of others miserable nations whereas in the USA, there’s a trend of imbeciles against vaccination! No excuses!
What heroes. Thank you for sharing the story of these remarkable individuals.
What do the 109 die of?
You mean vaccination teams? Looks like they are killed by militants and suicide bombers. Awful. Polio is close to being eradicated. Polio vaccinators are so brave and doing such an important job, it's heartbreaking.https://www.voanews.com/a/militants-attack-polio-vaccination-team-pakistan/4303663.html …
These are the people whom vaccine opponents either implicitly,or very explicitly,vilify as knowingly and deliberately harming children...while they are nothing but keyboard crusaders contributing nothing.
#VaccinesSaveLives and so do these aid workers and volunteers.
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