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India has launched a campaign to eradicate polio from its northern state of Uttar Pradesh, thought to have the world's highest concentration of the infection.
Some 2,700 booths have been situated in and around the state capital of Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow, to give out vaccine drops, the BBC reported.
There are also plans to immunize two million children in the Indian capital, New Delhi.
Bihar and Uttar Pradesh are the only two states left in India where polio infection is still endemic.
Uttar Pradesh has a population of over 190 million and the world's highest concentration of the crippling disease.
The infection is now endemic in just four countries - Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, and Nigeria.
The World Health Organization (WHO) is currently making efforts to totally eradicate polio.
Beth Haller, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (www.gadim.org). A former print journalist, she is a member of the Advisory Board for the National Center on Disability and Journalism (https://ncdj.org/). Haller is Professor Emerita in the Department of Mass Communication at Towson University in Maryland, USA. Haller is co-editor of the 2020 "Routledge Companion to Disability and Media" (with Gerard Goggin of University of Sydney & Katie Ellis of Curtin University, Australia). She is author of "Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media" (Advocado Press, 2010) and the author/editor of Byline of Hope: Collected Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller (Advocado Press, 2015). She has been researching disability representation in mass media for 30+ years. She is adjunct faculty in the Disability Studies programs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the University of Texas-Arlington.
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