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Pit-burial for polio curing [1]

Srinivas Sirnoorkar: GULBARGA: DH News Service

Two decades ago public health officials and volunteers committed themselves to eliminating polio from the country by the year 2000. But nine years past the deadline, cultural suspicions and superstition among some Gulbarga families have made the eradication of polio far from assured.

Publication Date: 
23/07/2009
Deccan Herald (Bangalore) [2]
Tags:
Child Health [3], Polio [4], Karnataka [5], Gulbarga (D) [6]
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