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The lead author of the research paper, Prof Mandeep Mehra, from the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts had asked the Lancet to withdraw the study saying could no longer vouch for the data’s accuracy. The Guardian's expose had revealed that the Chicago-based company's data used in the article was fake.

Twitter users speculated whether Rahul Gandhi was asking for vegetable or grocery items to a local vendor.

It is not just the Chinese Virus that has received a boost due to their conduct. Over the years, even immunization to polio through the polio vaccine has been undermined due to the rabid opposition of Islamic fundamentalists to it.

A polio vaccination team was reportedly kept hostage and beaten up in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, after the locals mistook that the team was collecting data for National Population Register (NPR).

Malappuram, Kerala district with 70% Muslim population, sees the most number of children missing the mass polio vaccination drive.

Mission Indradhanush, a health mission launched by the Narendra Modi government, with a target to achieve full immunization coverage by 2020

It is indeed worrisome how big media like The Print, which is run by the Editors Guild chief Shekhar Gupta, no less and The Telegraph spread rumours and lies about the Polio vaccine

The Print published an alarming report saying that India doesn’t have polio vaccine for the next round of immunization, which turned out to be fake

The Uttar Pradesh health department has now sought help from the clerics to address this issue by asking them to silence these rumours.

UNICEF's India chief says countrywide efforts in healthcare, newborn care and immunisation has been instrumental in bringing down infant death rates in the country.