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Image by Helen Branswell. India, 2011.

Pulitzer Center grantee Helen Branswell recalls her 2011 trip to India, where she reported on the efforts of health care workers to vaccinate the country's children against polio. Unfortunately, in rare cases, the vaccine can sometimes cause polio. Read her in-depth report on the tricky transition to a different, safer vaccine in the endgame of the global eradication program here.

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