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Anti-Polio Health Worker Shot Dead in Pakistan

HeadlineDec 30, 2013

A health worker overseeing a polio vaccination effort in Pakistan has been shot dead. The victim was the latest medical official to be killed in the fallout from the U.S. assassination of Osama bin Laden. The Taliban began attacking health workers after it was revealed the CIA used a fake vaccination program to help locate bin Laden.

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