[kvm_mkdb]

It was mentioned here once:

Originally posted by einmakom here:

Meanwhile, predominantly Muslim countries are doing better than ever,

The WHO launched its campaign last week in a bid to immunise more than 15 million children in west and central Africa against polio.

The new danger stems from Nigeria, which accounts for nearly half of all polio cases in the world.

But three predominantly Muslim states in northern Nigeria - Kano, Kaduna and Zamfara, have delayed or refused permission following opposition from influential Islamic leaders who allege the oral vaccination is unsafe and part of a secret US plan against Africa.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3216329.stm

Well, it looks like those allegations were founded:

The results were very interesting because I and some other professional colleagues who are Indians who were in the Lab could not believe the discovery. I thought at first that something was wrong with my calculations, them we repeated it again and again, and again, it kept giving us the same results of contaminants. Some of the Indian scientists who were in the lab also wondered how come a polio vaccine had such contaminants that were not suppose to be there. Some of the things we discovered in the vaccines are harmful, toxic; some have direct effect on human reproductive system.

http://allafrica.com/stories/200403080104.html

[angaq0k]

Originally posted by kvm_mkdb:
It was mentioned here once:



Well, it looks like those allegations were founded:

The results were very interesting because I and some other professional colleagues who are Indians who were in the Lab could not believe the discovery. I thought at first that something was wrong with my calculations, them we repeated it again and again, and again, it kept giving us the same results of contaminants. Some of the Indian scientists who were in the lab also wondered how come a polio vaccine had such contaminants that were not suppose to be there. Some of the things we discovered in the vaccines are harmful, toxic; some have direct effect on human reproductive system.

http://allafrica.com/stories/200403080104.html

Well, there may be a simpler explanation:

From this site:
http://www.afronets.org/archive/200401/msg00069.php

Nigeria: Polio, Politics and Power Play
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"Polio eradication is no longer a health issue. It is a politi-
cal issue. Unless every child at risk is immunized the (global
control) effort will have been wasted and the virus will spread
throughout the world."

Bruce Aylward, co-ordinator of the Global Polio Eradication Ini-
tiative at the WHO. Jan. 2004
Source:
http://www.datelinehealth-africa.net...p?news_id=9123


Background:

A public health brouhaha has been playing out in Nigeria since
October 2003. Polio vaccination is at the core of the crisis.
The key actors in the crisis are: religious leaders of some
northern Nigerian states (with Kano State as the prime leader)
on one hand, the Federal government of Nigeria, WHO and other
multilateral organisations on the other hand. Caught in the mid-
dle are hapless children who do not have a voice that can be
heard.

Muslim clerics in northern Nigeria have for sometime viewed the
polio vaccines with suspicion. They stopped the immunisation
programme in three predominantly Islamic states of Zamfara, Ka-
duna and Kano last year saying the vaccines were contaminated
with contraceptives. Some political leaders including a medical
practitioner of northern extraction publicly expressed conspir-
acy theories, accusing President Obasanjo of Nigeria, a southern
christian, of colluding with the American CIA to "de-fertilize"
the North. Efforts to reassure these Northern leaders have been
frustrated by conflicting laboratory test results on the dis-
puted vaccines. While the federal government's tests have given
the vaccines the all-clear, northern leaders say that their own
test results showed traces of the female hormone, oestrogen, in
the vaccines.

Meanwhile, President Obasanjo of Nigeria has personally declared
the UNICEF supplied polio vaccine, safe. Nigeria's health minis-
ter, Professor Eyitayo Lambo in Geneva last week, endorsed an
agreement on behalf of the government of Nigeria, for new mass
immunisation campaigns that aim to vaccinate 250 million chil-
dren against polio in six polio endemic countries; Afghanistan,
India, Pakistan, Egypt, Niger and Nigeria. This was announced
after an emergency meeting at the World Health Organisation
called after concerns that Nigeria may be triggering a resur-
gence of polio cases in neighbouring Burkina Faso, Ghana, Chad,
which hitherto had been certified polio-free by WHO.

While Nigeria's Health minister has declared that the national
immunisation campaign would restart next month and would cover
all of Nigeria's northern states; Kano State authorities persist
in their insistence on Sunday that "the suspension of polio im-
munisation in the state would remain in force until their fears
about the vaccines used were adequately addressed."

Health is on the concurrent list in Nigeria and States and not
the Federal government have administrative control over health
affairs at primary and secondary care levels. Furthermore, it is
worthy to note that Kano State, Nigeria is under the control of
a different political party led by General Buhari, onetime mili-
tary dictator and Head of State, who has filed a case in Nige-
ria's Supreme court, challenging the victory of President
Obasanjo's ruling party, the PDP, at the Federal level, during
the last presidential election in May 2003. President Obasanjo,
himself is an ex-military dictator who ruled Nigeria before Gen-
eral Buhari.

Sounds a lot like "simple" local politics instead of an external conspiracy.