Dalai Lama gives polio vaccine
10/01/2010
Launching campaigns in Buddhism’s holiest site
![An infant receives polio vaccine from the Dalai Lama UNICEF/India](http://polioeradication.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/2-1_Dalai_Lama.jpg)
UNICEF/India
The Dalai Lama inaugurated polio vaccination campaigns here today, in Buddhism’s holiest site. The campaigns in Bihar state, India, were the first in the country to use the new bivalent oral polio vaccine, which protects children from both surviving types of wild poliovirus.