Pakistan: Pakistani city launches new polio campaign after rare strain found

Local officials recruited Muslim clerics to promote immunisations for 400,000 children after past programmes were met with resistance and violence by extremists

By Gul Yousafzai

QUETTA, Pakistan, Jan 2 (Reuters) - Pakistan began a special five-day polio immunisation campaign in the southwestern city of Quetta on Monday for children under five after a rare strain of the virus was found in sewage samples, officials said.

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