November 18, 2003

Nigerian vaccine tests refute contamination claim

from the New Scientist bq. Laboratory tests by Nigerian scientists have dismissed accusations that the polio vaccine given in a mass immunisation campaign in the country is contaminated with anti-fertility hormones and HIV. Here is the money quote: bq. Some Islamic clerics suggested the vaccine is part of a Western plot to depopulate Africa. Fucking fools each and every one of them... We are doing more than they ever will to save the people of Africa and they sit back in their tents and kvetch... Here is what we are working against: bq. Of the 520 cases of polio seen worldwide so far in 2003, nearly half were in Nigeria says Melissa Corkum, information officer for polio at WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Posted by DaveH at November 18, 2003 12:16 PM