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Nigerian State Resumes Polio Vaccinations
Health workers took a polio vaccination campaign Saturday to villages in Nigeria's mainly Muslim north, ending a ban on inoculations that had caused a regional outbreak and threatened global eradication efforts.
| That's too bad. Now they'll miss their cause and effect lesson... |
Nigeria's Kano state — where a recent epidemic of the crippling disease started and spread to 10 other African nations — allowed vaccinations to resume Saturday after an 11-month boycott. The ban was imposed after religious leaders alleged that foreign powers were spreading AIDS and infertility among Muslims with the vaccine.
Posted by: Fred 2004-08-01 |
