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A Kashmiri health worker administers polio drops to a child outside a bakery in Srinagar, India, April 15.

India pushes ahead in fight against polio

India celebrated a full year since its last reported case of polio on Jan. 13, a major victory in a global eradication effort that seemed stalled just a few years ago. Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad warned that India needed to push forward with its vaccination campaign to ensure the elimination of any residual virus and to prevent the import and spread of virus from abroad.

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