Story by Christopher Burbach.
Dr. Ali Kahn knelt down outside a Karachi doorway and extended his hand. The young girl who, moments earlier, had just received the polio vaccine extended her hand and a skeptical look toward the smiling doctor in a red hat emblazoned with a white “N.”
“On the front lines in Karachi, meeting a superstar who just got her polio protection. Every drop counts!” Khan wrote in an October social media post accompanying the photo. The dean of the College of Public Health at the University of Nebraska Medical Center was in Pakistan to help with the country’s push to eradicate polio…