The anti-vaccination movement has yet another inconvenient truth to explain: the near-complete eradication of the polio virus across an entire country thanks to a sweeping campaign by health authorities to vaccinate children. Rukhsar Khatoon is believed to be the last child with polio in India. It’s been three years since another confirmed case. And it’s all thanks to vaccination. Despite India’s abysmal public health system, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative helped achieve 95% coverage across the nation. When the campaign was launched in 1988, polio permanently disabled 200,000 children a year in India. In 2009, polio affected just 741 children. Now it’s none.

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