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Ethiopia reported four polio cases last week, bringing the country’s total for the year to 33. In response, a social media user accused polio workers of dumping polio vaccines in open fields and falsely reporting a successful vaccination campaign. Meanwhile, a conservative organization that has promoted anti-vaccine myths and the conspiracy theory that HIV does not cause AIDS, shared a news article about polio cases in Ethiopia and Benin. The post emphasized that the cases were vaccine-derived, with no additional context or explanation of how cVDPV spreads.

Pakistan reported a polio case in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, bringing its total to 12 this year. The country conducted three polio vaccination campaigns in 2025, prompting some online to question the effectiveness and importance of these efforts. One post argued that polio has “overshadowed” the millions of children in Pakistan who live in poverty and lack access to clean water. Others claim that polio is “nonsense” used by community health workers to make money.