Polio Nearly Eradicated Despite Pakistani, Afghan Suspicions

Huma Shazif had just vaccinated five children against polio in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar when gunmen attacked. They sped off on a motorbike as her colleague lay dying on the ground after being shot in the abdomen, while she was hit three times in the leg.

"It was painful,” she told IRIN. “I had never even thought that militants could attac…