{"id":763,"date":"2016-08-30T17:04:54","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T17:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beyondpolio.org\/?p=763"},"modified":"2016-08-30T17:04:54","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T17:04:54","slug":"terrorists-might-cant-get-rid-polio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beyondpolio.org\/?p=763","title":{"rendered":"Terrorists Might Be Why We Can\u2019t Get Rid of Polio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-765 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/beyondpolio.org\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/m60-1475760_1920-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"m60-1475760_1920\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beyondpolio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/m60-1475760_1920-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/beyondpolio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/m60-1475760_1920-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/beyondpolio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/m60-1475760_1920-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/beyondpolio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/m60-1475760_1920-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/beyondpolio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/m60-1475760_1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Is it possible that terrorists are the reason why polio hasn\u2019t been completely wiped out? Some people have been asking this very question. For example, two of the last countries where polio is present\u2014Pakistan and Afghanistan\u2014are also areas with a strong terrorist presence. In Afghanistan, members of ISIS have been known to block immunization drives and have created anti-immunization propaganda to persuade locals from receiving the lifesaving vaccine. In 2014, The Taliban <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/jul\/08\/afghan-taliban-bans-polio-vaccination-teams-southern-helmand-province\" target=\"_blank\">accused<\/a><\/strong> polio vaccination teams of spying and banned them from certain parts of Afghanistan, while in Pakistan <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctc.usma.edu\/posts\/the-pakistani-talibans-campaign-against-polio-vaccination\" target=\"_blank\">campaigned<\/a> <\/strong>against immunizations. Earlier this year the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) or Pakistani Taliban also claimed responsibility for a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1232683\" target=\"_blank\">bombing<\/a><\/strong> outside a polio clinic.<\/p>\n<p>For the full article, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc2news.com\/newsy\/terrorists-might-be-why-we-cant-get-rid-of-polio\" target=\"_blank\">visit ABC2News.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it possible that terrorists are the reason why polio hasn\u2019t been completely wiped out? Some people have been asking this very question. For example, two of the last countries where polio is present\u2014Pakistan and Afghanistan\u2014are also areas with a strong terrorist presence. In Afghanistan, members of ISIS have been known to block immunization drives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Terrorists Might Be Why We Can\u2019t Get Rid of Polio<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/beyondpolio.org\/?p=763\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Terrorists Might Be Why We Can\u2019t Get Rid of Polio\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Is it possible that terrorists are the reason why polio hasn\u2019t been completely wiped out? 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