Islamic State Rejects Polio Vaccinations
From Times Wire Reports
An Islamic state in Nigeria at the heart of a polio outbreak declared it would not relent on its boycott of a mass vaccination program that it has called a U.S. plot to spread AIDS and infertility among Muslims.
“Kano state will not participate in tomorrow’s polio campaign,” state spokesman Sule Yau Sule said.
U.N. aid agencies are seeking to conduct a door-to-door drive to inoculate 63 million children in 10 African countries.
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