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September 4, 2005

Polio Fight in Indonesia

Thanks to Sudanese Muslim clerics who spread the insane conspiracy theory that the Polio vaccine was designed to make Muslim girls infertile the worldwide Poliomielitis outbreak continues: Indonesia faces polio challenge

In the pantheon of Asian health crises, Indonesia's polio outbreak does not appear that serious. No one has died, only 226 people out of a population of 220 million have been affected and only five out of the 32 provinces have recorded infections.

So why are the World Health Organisation and the UN's children's organisation, Unicef spending tens of millions of pounds and bullying the government into conducting nationwide immunisation programmes?

"The eyes of the world are currently set on Indonesia," Dr David Heymann, the WHO's chief polio envoy, said in a deliberately combative statement on a visit to Jakarta last month. "People are looking for regional leadership because they don't want this [country] to become another Nigeria."

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The answer lies in the word Nigeria. In early 2003 the WHO thought polio was close to being eradicated, with only half a dozen countries continuing to report infections. Then several provinces in the predominantly Muslim northern half of Nigeria refused to vaccinate for about 12 months after rumours spread that western governments had laced the vaccine with drugs as part of a conspiracy to sterilise Muslim girls.

Posted by Ruy Diaz at September 4, 2005 7:47 AM

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