Referring to the recent incidents of attacks against polio workers, the international health and science experts stated that the government should persuade the killers to stop shooting the polio workers and guarantee safe passage for them before the polio eradication officials regroup to resume drive, said a media report carried by New York Times.
Donald G. McNeil Jr., in his report observed that reviving the campaign will mean quelling many rumours. It may also require adding other medical "inducements," like deworming medicine, mosquito nets or vitamin A, whose immediate benefits are usually more obvious.
The report said, as many as nine vaccine workers were killed in Pakistan last week in a terrorist campaign that brought the work of 225,000 vaccinators to a standstill. Suspicion fell immediately on factions of the Pakistani Taliban that have threatened vaccinators in the past, accusing them of being American spies. The report clarified that polio vaccine is now bought only from Muslim countries like Indonesia, and Muslim scholars have ruled it Halal.