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Nigerian team seeks reassurance that polio vaccine is safe.
2004 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- With its polio outbreak spreading, Nigeria recently sent a team of scientists, officials and Muslim leaders abroad to bring back proof that the vaccine is neither contaminated nor a Western plot to spread AIDS.
Three predominantly Muslim northern states have suspended door-to-door vaccinations since October, citing fears that the vaccine could cause infertility or AIDS.
The United Nations said the outbreak has crossed into neighboring African countries, and is threatening a global campaign to wipe out the crippling virus.
The mission took the team to South Africa, Indonesia and India for a week to observe a battery of tests on the vaccine, Health Minister Eyitayo Lambo said.
"We want all the stakeholders to see for themselves and be convinced about whether or not the polio vaccines are safe," Lambo told the Associated Press.
Lambo will be on the team, along with representatives of state governments and religious organizations including Jama'atu Nasril Islam, among the nation's most influential Muslim groups.
Tests initiated by the federal government were performed in Nigeria and South Africa late last year and proved conclusively the vaccines were free of all harmful substances, officials said.
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