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Muslim Nigerian state won't join immunization campaign.
2004 APR 14 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A mainly Muslim state in northern Nigeria says it won't join a nationwide polio immunization campaign because the alternative vaccines it ordered from abroad have not arrived.
Kano is the only state left in Nigeria still refusing polio vaccinations, which aim to eradicate the crippling disease from the country.
Several states in Nigeria's predominantly Islamic north suspended polio immunization campaigns between October and February following rumors spread by radical Muslim preachers the vaccines were laced with agents that could cause AIDS, cancer and infertility. They claimed it was part of a U.S. plot to depopulate Muslims.
President Olusegun Obasanjo kicked off a week of emergency immunization in Gusau, capital of neighboring Zamfara state. Zamfara was until recently the only other state objecting to the polio vaccines.
"We will only join when we receive uncontaminated vaccines or when our own vaccines arrive," Kano spokesman Sule Ya'u Sule told the Associated Press.
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Source: HighBeam Research, Muslim Nigerian state won't join immunization campaign.