Taliban's vaccine ban may affect 280,000 children

A ban on polio vaccinations imposed by the Taliban could affect about 280,000 accouchement active in affiliated areas of northwest Pakistan, according to estimates from the World Bloom Organization.Last month, bounded Taliban militants banned polio vaccines over the United States' use of bombinate strikes in the region.When a three-day civic accomplishment to administrate polio vaccines began this week,health workers and volunteers weren't able to immunize accouchement in North and South Waziristan.Under this aegis situation, they "obviously cannot operate," said Mazhar Nisar, the bloom apprenticeship adviser in the Pakistani prime minister's polio program. "We're acquisitive that the attack will resume in the abreast future.Throughout the blow of the country, anesthetic efforts connected as 180,000 bloom workers and volunteers fanned throughout communities aggravating to immunize 34 actor children, beneath the age of 5.