Islamic leaders stand in way of polio vaccine

[Nie Trink Wasser]

DAKAR, Senegal -- The World Health Organization will launch a massive immunization campaign Monday targeting 63 million children in about 10 African countries as a polio outbreak spreads from heavily Muslim northern Nigeria.

Islamic leaders in the heart of the Nigerian outbreak say they will uphold their ban on the polio vaccine, calling it part of a US plot to spread infertility or AIDS among Muslims.

http://www.boston.com/news/world/africa/articles/2004/02/20/polio_vaccine_drive_slated_for_africa/

 

[Nie Trink Wasser]

scarlet diva

 

[Goshawk]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L28121303.htm

28 Jan 2004 14:04:28 GMT
Nigeria to test polio vaccine to counter suspicion

ABUJA, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Nigeria is to test samples of the polio vaccine next month in the hope of resolving a dispute with Muslim authorities which has helped spread the crippling disease to children across Africa.

Three predominantly Muslim states in northern Nigeria stopped immunisations in November because Islamic authorities suspect the vaccines of spreading infertility -- which they believe is part of an American conspiracy to depopulate Africa's most populous nation.

"A meeting has been scheduled in two weeks' time with all the states that are opposed to the immunisation programme," Health Minister Eyitayo Lambo told Reuters.

He said during the meeting, and in the presence of all, the vaccine would be tested for impurities.

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Nasiu Baba-Ahmed, Secretary-General of the Supreme Council for Sharia (Islamic law) in Nigeria, backed the idea of a joint test with the government. He said tests commissioned by Nigerian Islamic groups in Italy and India confirmed the presence of contaminants in vaccines taken from northern Nigeria.

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"There are serious suspicions of a conspiracy by the U.S. government to depopulate Nigeria, among other developing countries," he told Reuters.

"Unless a joint examination is undertaken, suspicions will linger and people will not be forthcoming."

If the joint test puts fears to rest, the minister said vaccinations would resume nationwide on February 23.

Which would be Monday...

 

[Eos of the Eons]

Islamic leaders in the heart of the Nigerian outbreak say they will uphold their ban on the polio vaccine, calling it part of a US plot to spread infertility or AIDS among Muslims.

This despite the fact there is no proof of this ridiculous plot.


Well, they are only damning themsleves. Their kids will probably be just as pig headed ignorant, so let em be maimed and killed by the polio virus. They will hardly be able to reproduce successfully after that.

Funny thing is, not vaccinating will stunt their reproduction abilities. Ironic.

A polio injured indivdual hardly makes an attractive partner. How will they have kids or work to support families?

They chose it. They can suffer the consequences.

 

[peptoabysmal]

This sounds suspiciously like the urban legends that circulate amongst the black populace in the US.

 

[Jon_in_london]

AIDS

American Invention for Discouraging Sex.

 

[Abdul Alhazred]

Islamic leaders in the heart of the Nigerian outbreak say they will uphold their ban on the polio vaccine, calling it part of a US plot to spread infertility or AIDS among Muslims.

Projection. This is what they would like to do with us.