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PREVENTIVE STEP: A child being administered polio drops in Bhopal on Sunday. Hundreds of thousands of children were given the vaccine during the pulse polio drive across the country on the day. _ PHOTO: A.M. FARUQUI NEW DELHI: Health workers and volunteers delivered polio vaccine drops to hundreds of thousands of children across the country on Sunday as India entered the final stretch of a drive to wipe out the crippling disease by the yearend. Union health authorities are focusing on four northern Indian states and some slum clusters in New Delhi, which have been identified as at risk for a resurgence of the disease. Polio usually infects children under the age of five through contaminated drinking water. The virus attacks the central nervous system, causing paralysis, muscular atrophy and deformation and, in some cases, death. — AP
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