NEWS: WHO: World polio cases rose by a third in 2004, page 1

posted on Jan, 13 2005 @ 01:55 AM

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World Health Organization reported today that the number of world wide polio cases had increased by more than 33 percent. The increase was blamed in part to a vaccine boycott in Nigeria. Most of the cases of the disease occurred in Nigeria and the boycott was due to rumors that the vaccine was a U.S. plot to infect them with AIDS

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GENEVA, Switzerland (AP) -- The number of worldwide polio cases last year rose by almost one-third after a vaccine boycott in Nigeria spawned a resurgence of the disease across Africa, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.

The number of cases worldwide in 2004 reached 1,185, compared with 784 in 2003, the United Nations health agency said.

Most of the cases were in Africa -- largely in Nigeria, the continent's most populous nation. Hardline Islamic clerics in Nigeria's northern Kano state led the immunization boycott, claiming the polio vaccine was part of a U.S.-led plot to render Nigeria's Muslims infertile or infect them with AIDS.

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It is amazing that diseases like polio still exist. But if you cannot vaccinate people, then you always run the risk. This also highlights the difficulties of protecting large third world populations from disease. Even if they develop an AIDS vaccine, the slightest rumors could cause boycotts and render it ineffective.

marg6043

posted on Jan, 13 2005 @ 06:03 AM

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So sad that people in this world still have to go through this type of diceases, I had a cousin that had polio as a child she was older than me, and because of the disease she became handicap one of her leg shorter that the other one and this happend in the sixties.

DrHoracid

posted on Jan, 13 2005 @ 06:12 AM

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This article clearly shows why ISLAM is for the ignorant masses. Just let them DIE of disease, starvation, and ignorance. They are too stupid to live.

Nygdan

posted on Jan, 13 2005 @ 06:41 AM

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Originally posted by DrHoracid
This article clearly shows why ISLAM is for the ignorant masses.

It shows how islam gets used to prop up some lunacy about vaccination conspiracies. Christianity is used for exactly the same purpose.