{"id":58127,"date":"2023-09-06T17:39:06","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T08:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/sep\/06\/parents-in-pakistan-could-be-jailed-for-polio-vaccine-refusal"},"modified":"2023-09-06T17:39:06","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T08:39:06","slug":"parents-in-pakistan-could-be-jailed-for-polio-vaccine-refusal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58127","title":{"rendered":"Parents in Pakistan could be jailed for polio vaccine refusal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New law in Sindh introduces \u2018extraordinary measures\u2019 to ensure vaccination of children against range of infectious diseases<\/p>\n<p>Parents in Pakistan who refuse to get their children vaccinated against infectious diseases could be jailed or fined under a new law introduced in Sindh province.<\/p>\n<p>The introduction of the legislation is an attempt to eradicate polio, which is endemic in Pakistan, but will cover vaccines for diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough (pertussis), measles, mumps and rubella.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/sep\/06\/parents-in-pakistan-could-be-jailed-for-polio-vaccine-refusal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New law in Sindh introduces \u2018extraordinary measures\u2019 to ensure vaccination of children against range of infectious diseasesParents in Pakistan who refuse to get their children vaccinated against infectious diseases could be jailed or fined under a new &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1153,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59,566,914,60,900,79,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-development","category-global-health","category-infectious-diseases","category-pakistan","category-polio","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58128,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58127\/revisions\/58128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}