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JEFFREY BROWN (Newshour): ....India, a poor and populous country long plagued by polio, but now health officials have come close to wiping out the disease.
Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro explains how that was accomplished.
FRED DE SAM LAZARO: In India, the battle against polio is being fought one mouthful at a time. Vaccinators have fanned out with coolers containing vials of the oral vaccine on a scale befitting a nation of 1.2 billion, says Lieven Desomer, a campaign strategist for the U.N.
"A Look at the World's 'Forgotten' Diseases" by Paula Rogo, PBS Newshour 2/20/2012
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