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aricept online Here in eastern Afghanistan, the influence of the Pakistani Taliban is strong. In Lal Pura, six villages—representing 200 of the district’s 1,100 households—have been off-limits to polio campaign vaccinators for the past two years. Pakistani militants have been living nearby, and they refuse to let the vaccine teams in. The result is a pocket of unvaccinated children and a reservoir for the virus—one that threatens to spread to the entire region if unchecked. Indeed, seven months earlier, one of the few cases of polio paralysis in the country was reported here.