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Nigerian children to be vaccinated despite Muslim objections
by Scott Gilbreath ~ December 3rd, 2008
Thirty million children in northern Nigeria are to be immunised against polio and measles, even though “radical Muslim clerics and some medical doctors” claim the vaccines are part of an American plot to sterilise girls and depopulate the world.
For five days 200,000 health workers will be stationed at 33,000 schools throughout northern Nigeria to administer oral polio drops and measles vaccines to millions of children under the age of five in a new drive to eradicate the two diseases. The innoculation drive is beign spearheaded by the country’s health ministry, with financial and technical support from UNICEF, the World Health Organization and other partners. But the campaign is proceeding despite vehement protests by radical Islamists.
The programme appears to be gaining support among mainstream Muslims after hundreds of children have died from a measles outbreak attributed to widespread parental failure to have children vaccinated.
h/t: EuropeNews
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