The surge in murders of polio vaccination workers in Pakistan out of suspicion that they represent foreign interests and agents-suspicion reinforced by the covert operation that led to Osama bin Laden's killing-serves as a poignant example of health-related moral hazards that can arise in the pursuit of national security objectives. The anxiety and psychological trauma, physical injury, and death in civilian populations living under the drones operating in Waziristan and other Pakistani border areas are still others. Then, too, we might consider the arrest and prosecution under counterterror laws of Bahraini doctors who treated antigovernment protestors.
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