Polio cases jump in Pakistan as clerics declare vaccination

Polio cases jump in Pakistan as clerics declare vaccination an American plot

Those Southern Baptist clerics have carried on their war against modern science long enough! Why, this is an outr--what's that? Islamic clerics? "60% of the refusals" of the vaccine "were attributed to 'religious reasons'"? Islamic religious reasons? What are you, some kind of Islamophobe?

By Declan Walsh in The Guardian, with thanks to DFS:

The parents of 24,000 children in northern Pakistan refused to allow health workers to administer polio vaccinations last month, mostly due to rumours that the harmless vaccine was an American plot to sterilise innocent Muslim children.

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