The Associated Press
Published: Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2011 - 10:12 am
KANO, Nigeria -- An independent monitor says hundreds of parents are defying threats of jail time by refusing polio vaccines for their children in a high-risk northern Nigerian state.

Muhammad Abdu Zango, Kano state coordinator of Journalists Against Polio, said Tuesday that more than 200 parents refused the vaccine in one district alone.

Vaccinator Amina Ahmed says dozens more refused in another district.

The four-day drive targeted some 6 million children in a state that has recorded two new polio cases this year.

Authorities last week said noncompliant parents would be prosecuted. Parents have given various reasons to resist the vaccine.

Polio is largely eradicated in most of the world, but health officers say even a few vaccine holdouts can compromise an eradication campaign.

http://www.sacbee.com/2011/08/02/3811495/nigeria-hundreds-of-parents-refuse.html

If they would just comply, we could eradicate polio from this planet. Alas. . .

I dont blame them. The damages done by Pfizer is still fresh.

Negro_Ntns:

I dont blame them. The damages done by Pfizer is still fresh.

Exactly!!!

Negro_Ntns:

I dont blame them. The damages done by Pfizer is still fresh.

Let them look for their own medicine or we watch them depopulate.

ferdiii:

Let them look for their own medicine or we watch them depopulate.

What sense have you made?

[size=15pt]Northerners . . . . SMH[/size]

well if they'd rather die from polio, we can't stop them

God punish pfizer for the trauma dey have caused this people, Would you risk your kid?, not sure if the plan to do the same thing they did years ago?

@topic

The could get vaccine from trusted muslim countries; must we all suffer for their lack on faith in others?
Get over with this polio vaccine thing already, there are bigger fishes to fry!

PointB:

@topic

The could get vaccine from trusted muslim countries; must we all suffer for their lack on faith in others?
Get over with this polio vaccine thing already, there are bigger fishes to fry!

+100

Get polio vaccine from Saudi if you are so paranoid. But perhaps Saudi will give it to them for free like the Westerners will, so they'll need to buy it

Why won't they just accept the vaccine?

After the Pfizer experience, i would certainly not blame them that much, the memory still lingers in their hearts.

Roland17:

After the Pfizer experience, i would certainly not blame them that much, the memory still lingers in their hearts.

But Pfizer wicked sha o;turning our almajiris into lab rats. I dey vex jo.

~Bluetooth:

But Pfizer wicked sha o;turning our almajiris into lab rats. I dey vex jo.

must you make useless comments, if you've got nothing meaningful to say, just read and not comment

~Bluetooth:

But Pfizer wicked sha o;turning our almajiris into lab rats. I dey vex jo.

u ideeiot that is how your yoruba leaders turned abiola into blood money

mumu Yoruba

Hmm. . . Perhaps they are afraid the vaccines with give their kids autism

alj_harem:

u ideeiot that is how your yoruba leaders turned abiola into blood money

mumu Yoruba

gidson12:

must you make useless comments, if you've got nothing meaningful to say, just read and not comment

Na wa for una o.who didn't know that pfizer conducted an experiment on kano almajiris in 1996 ? Or are you guys still you to know what's up then ? Maybe it's an attempt to depopulate the hausas !

not surprised. Norherners always say no to evrything

valicious1:

not surprised. Norherners always say no to evrything

what do you mean

~Bluetooth:

Na wa for una o.who didn't know that pfizer conducted an experiment on kano almajiris in 1996 ? Or are you guys still you to know what's up then ? Maybe it's an attempt to depopulate the hausas !

Pfizer used an experimental drug on Children already suffering from acute meningitis. Pfizer is a profit making entity.

This immunization campaign is being carried out by the UN/WHO to vaccinate kids against Polio.

Big difference in the two cases.

I don't know about 'depopulating hausas'. Where i served in Abia state, kids were being given the OPV too.

Bluetooth, there you go again. You are trying too hard. Give it a rest will you.

~Bluetooth:

Na wa for una o.who didn't know that pfizer conducted an experiment on kano almajiris in 1996 ? Or are you guys still you to know what's up then ? Maybe it's an attempt to depopulate the hausas !

Once bitten, twice shy!

Deception, guile and manipulation was the name of the Pfizer's game
Unfortunately everyday people from that region who experience the havoc wrecked by the "western agency" cannot make a distinction
between these international foreign agency hence the distrust.

Bawss1:

Bluetooth, there you go again. You are trying too hard. Give it a rest will you.

You can never know western foreign policy in Africa until the effects hit you.

texazzpete:

Pfizer used an experimental drug on Children already suffering from acute meningitis. Pfizer is a profit making entity.

This immunization campaign is being carried out by the UN/WHO to vaccinate kids against Polio.

Big difference in the two cases.

I don't know about 'depopulating hausas'. Where i served in Abia state, kids were being given the OPV too.

Honestly,I won't blame them cuz they would still think UN or whoever is involved still want to conduct another test on their children.This is a game of trust on the life of their children and losing a child out of deception can take a long time to heal.Not everybody likes the word ''Deja Vu''.

Pfizer this, Pfizer that!! You make it seem as if they just started rejecting vaccines after the Pfizer incident. For your information, they have been rejecting vaccines long before the trovan episode. Something about the vaccines "will make their children sterile, thus systematically reducing their population".

Don't make Pfizer the scape-goat.

grabdbull:

Pfizer this, Pfizer that!! You make it seem as if they just started rejecting vaccines after the Pfizer incident. For your information, they have been rejecting vaccines long before the trovan episode. Something about the vaccines "will make their children sterile, thus systematically reducing their population".

Don't make Pfizer the scape-goat.

This!

It's the 'sterility' rumour once again, not Pfizer.

CIA organised fake vaccination drive to get Osama bin Laden's family DNA:
Senior Pakistani doctor who organised vaccine programme in Abbottabad arrested by ISI for working with US agents
The CIA organised a fake vaccination programme in the town where it believed Osama bin Laden was hiding in an elaborate attempt to obtain DNA from the fugitive al-Qaida leader's family, a Guardian investigation has found.

As part of extensive preparations for the raid that killed Bin Laden in May, CIA agents recruited a senior Pakistani doctor to organise the vaccine drive in Abbottabad, even starting the "project" in a poorer part of town to make it look more authentic, according to Pakistani and US officials and local residents.

The doctor, Shakil Afridi, has since been arrested by the Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) for co-operating with American intelligence agents.
Relations between Washington and Islamabad, already severely strained by the Bin Laden operation, have deteriorated considerably since then. The doctor's arrest has exacerbated these tensions. The US is understood to be concerned for the doctor's safety, and is thought to have intervened on his behalf.

The vaccination plan was conceived after American intelligence officers tracked an al-Qaida courier, known as Abu Ahmad al-Kuwaiti, to what turned out to be Bin Laden's Abbottabad compound last summer. The agency monitored the compound by satellite and surveillance from a local CIA safe house in Abbottabad, but wanted confirmation that Bin Laden was there before mounting a risky operation inside another country.
DNA from any of the Bin Laden children in the compound could be compared with a sample from his sister, who died in Boston in 2010, to provide evidence that the family was present.

So agents approached Afridi, the health official in charge of Khyber, part of the tribal area that runs along the Afghan border.
The doctor went to Abbottabad in March, saying he had procured funds to give free vaccinations for hepatitis B. Bypassing the management of the Abbottabad health services, he paid generous sums to low-ranking local government health workers, who took part in the operation without knowing about the connection to Bin Laden. Health visitors in the area were among the few people who had gained access to the Bin Laden compound in the past, administering polio drops to some of the children.

Its getting more difficult to trust Western Aid donors thisdays, at least the Pfizer experience is still fresh in their minds and the lies used to invade Libya for which Nigeria was tricked into signing is still ongoing.

Guyman02:

CIA organised fake vaccination drive to get Osama bin Laden's family DNA:
Senior Pakistani doctor who organised vaccine programme in Abbottabad arrested by ISI for working with US agents
The CIA organised a fake vaccination programme in the town where it believed Osama bin Laden was hiding in an elaborate attempt to obtain DNA from the fugitive al-Qaida leader's family, a Guardian investigation has found.

As part of extensive preparations for the raid that killed Bin Laden in May, CIA agents recruited a senior Pakistani doctor to organise the vaccine drive in Abbottabad, even starting the "project" in a poorer part of town to make it look more authentic, according to Pakistani and US officials and local residents.

The doctor, Shakil Afridi, has since been arrested by the Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) for co-operating with American intelligence agents.
Relations between Washington and Islamabad, already severely strained by the Bin Laden operation, have deteriorated considerably since then. The doctor's arrest has exacerbated these tensions. The US is understood to be concerned for the doctor's safety, and is thought to have intervened on his behalf.

The vaccination plan was conceived after American intelligence officers tracked an al-Qaida courier, known as Abu Ahmad al-Kuwaiti, to what turned out to be Bin Laden's Abbottabad compound last summer. The agency monitored the compound by satellite and surveillance from a local CIA safe house in Abbottabad, but wanted confirmation that Bin Laden was there before mounting a risky operation inside another country.
DNA from any of the Bin Laden children in the compound could be compared with a sample from his sister, who died in Boston in 2010, to provide evidence that the family was present.

So agents approached Afridi, the health official in charge of Khyber, part of the tribal area that runs along the Afghan border.
The doctor went to Abbottabad in March, saying he had procured funds to give free vaccinations for hepatitis B. Bypassing the management of the Abbottabad health services, he paid generous sums to low-ranking local government health workers, who took part in the operation without knowing about the connection to Bin Laden. Health visitors in the area were among the few people who had gained access to the Bin Laden compound in the past, administering polio drops to some of the children.

Its getting more difficult to trust Western Aid donors thisdays, at least the Pfizer experience is still fresh in their minds and the lies used to invade Libya for which Nigeria was tricked into signing is still ongoing.

How does this even relate to the topic at all?

moreover, you're too daft to even realize that the section you highlighted in bold font has NOTHING whatsoever to do with the CIA or the US.

texazzpete:

Pfizer used an experimental drug on Children already suffering from acute meningitis. Pfizer is a profit making entity.

This immunization campaign is being carried out by the UN/WHO to vaccinate kids against Polio.

Big difference in the two cases.

I don't know about 'depopulating hausas'. Where i served in Abia state, kids were being given the OPV too.

We know that fact (atleast some), however, try to tell those Northern parents that. But a group of uneducated people, no offense, usually learns from experience (cause-n-effect).

Gotten from the gov't, Pfizer or the Saudis.
Wherever.
Isn't it time to wipe out polio?

Well, 1 of the disadvantages associated with attenuated vaccines is the possibility of reversion of attenuation. This could give rise to vaccine-induced disease even in healthy people.
The Polio vaccine used then's a good example of attenuated vaccines. To the best of my knowledge, this was what happened in 1996.I'm not sure if the Polio vaccine in current use is of the attenuated type.

JPizzy:

Well, 1 of the disadvantages associated with attenuated vaccines is the possibility of reversion of attenuation. This could give rise to vaccine-induced disease even in healthy people.
The Polio vaccine used then's a good example of attenuated vaccines. To the best of my knowledge, this was what happened in 1996.I'm not sure if the Polio vaccine in current use is of the attenuated type.

What's the link between polio vaccines and acute meningitis? Please delete this post immediately!