{"id":78227,"date":"2025-08-05T10:03:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T10:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=78227"},"modified":"2025-08-05T10:03:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T10:03:57","slug":"the-world-nearly-beat-polio-but-fake-records-an-imperfect-vaccine-and-missteps-aided-its-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/08\/05\/the-world-nearly-beat-polio-but-fake-records-an-imperfect-vaccine-and-missteps-aided-its-comeback\/","title":{"rendered":"The world nearly beat polio. But fake records, an imperfect vaccine and missteps aided its comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1JV0xM.img?w=800&amp;h=435&amp;q=60&amp;m=2&amp;f=jpg\" alt=\"Polio Eradication Failures:\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For the past decade, Sughra Ayaz has traveled door to door in southeastern Pakistan, pleading with parents to allow children to be vaccinated against polio as part of a global campaign to wipe out the paralytic disease.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/the-world-nearly-beat-polio-but-fake-records-an-imperfect-vaccine-and-missteps-aided-its-comeback\/ar-AA1JV3af?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=9e19501b01dc408c88f0ef2635ee05d1&amp;ei=7\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>For the past decade, Sughra Ayaz has traveled door to door in southeastern Pakistan, pleading with parents to allow children to be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-78227","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Polio-Pakistan.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78228,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78227\/revisions\/78228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}