Polio cases jump in Pakistan as clerics declare vaccination an American plot

[PrimBabUB]

The parents of 24,000 children in northern Pakistan refused to allow health workers to administer polio vaccinations last month, mostly due to rumours that the harmless vaccine was an American plot to sterilise innocent Muslim children.
The disinformation - spread by extremist clerics using mosque loudspeakers and illegal radio stations, and by word of mouth - has caused a sharp jump in polio cases in Pakistan and hit global efforts to eradicate the debilitating disease.

OK. We tried. See ya.

Demands for "assistance" from local officials and elders was the other major factor behind the refusals. In the Mohmand tribal agency, policemen demanded their salaries before allowing vaccination to proceed. Other villagers asked for money or the release of criminals from jail.

"Demand" refusals accounted for about one-third of cases, the WHO said.

It's all about the children with these people, isn't it?

But some brave women were uncowed by the extortion or demagoguery. Up to 200 babies a day are vaccinated at the Khyber teaching hospital in Peshawar, where burka-clad women arrive with children in their arms. Some arrive in secret, slipping into the clinic in defiance of male relatives who oppose vaccination. "One woman told me, 'My husband is illiterate. He has no idea how important this vaccine is,'" said Muhammad Islam, a male nurse.

Why is it, that, all the people that show signs of intelligence are being held prisoner under a burqa?


Polio cases jump in Pakistan as clerics declare vaccination an American plot | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited

 

[cherokee]

OK. We tried. See ya.
It's all about the children with these people, isn't it?
Why is it, that, all the people that show signs of intelligence are being held prisoner under a burqa?
Polio cases jump in Pakistan as clerics declare vaccination an American plot | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited

If these Muslims clerics dont want to advance out of the stone age..
Fine let them all die.

 

[Kelzie]

There are times when people are so stupid that I feel very unkindly to them.

 

[WI Crippler]

Why is it, that, all the people that show signs of intelligence are being held prisoner under a burqa?

Because an educated population is a threat to the people who hold power in that region.

 

[PrimBabUB]

A doctor was killed by a roadside bomb in Pakistan today as Islamist militants tried to halt a polio immunisation campaign which, they say, is an American plot to sterilise Muslims.

Dr. Abdul Ghani was killed and three guards wounded after he visited a mullah, or religious leader, in Salarzai, a village in Bajaur tribal region in the borderlands with Afghanistan.

"It was a remote-controlled bomb," said an intelligence official in Khar, Bajaur's main town. No one claimed responsibility for the attack.

Dr Ghani was killed while returning to Khar, where he was chief surgeon at the main hospital, after attending a tribal gathering to promote polio vaccinations.

Islamist militants claim vaccines are US plot | International News | News | Telegraph

You can't help these people. They are barbarians. If they want to live in caves, let them die in caves.