Shaheena mamralz can only wish she had never met the man who strode into her office one March afternoon last year. "I'm Dr. Shakeel Afridi," he announced. "I want to run a free hepatitis B vaccination campaign in the area. I need the data for women aged between 15 and 40," Mamraiz, a senior public-health official in the Pakistani town of Abbottabad, was taken aback. His aggressiveness verged on arrogance. "I refused to cooperate," she tells Newsweek. "He didn't seem to have any permission."
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