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PESHAWAR: The World Health Organisation is arranging vaccine for anti-polio campaigns in districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, wheresix vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (VDPV2) caseswere reported last week. The VDPV2 was eradicated in 1999 leading to the withdrawal of the P2 vaccine from the worldwide anti-polio programme by the WHO in 2016. However, after the re-emergence of the virus, the government has …

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