"On the first day of the campaign about 2,400 people refused anti-polio vaccine. There are many reasons for this refusal but mainly the religious sermons of certain clerics on FM radio channels are responsible for the increasing number of refusals," a Pakistani district health department official said, on condition of anonymity.
I know, I know, it's like what they say in AA meetings. Once you fall in again with your old companions, all your good resolutions just vanish and you're back in it again...
"A 22-year-old Pakistani student in Australia has tested positive for polio, a World Health Organisation official says. The case is the first in Australia since 1986, officials say."
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Local cleric Rohul Amin, had asked the people to block the entry of the vaccinators to the village. He said oral polio vaccines were against Islam.
Islamabad, Feb 17 - A Pakistani doctor was killed while returning from a tribal council meet where he had sought to convince people to immunise their children against polio.
Looks like we're going to be seeing more of this old pal...
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