Fighting Polio's Resurgence

DADANG TRI / REUTERS

Help On the Way
A worker prepares vials of polio vaccine in the Bio Farma factory in Bandung. The government hopes a quick mass immunization program will contain the first outbreak of the crippling disease in a decade. Polio is a waterborne virus that usually affects infants and toddlers, causing paralysis, withered muscles and sometimes death. There is no cure

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