It seems the Islamic Clerics in Nigeria’s northern Katsina state decided to help their fellow Muslims out by telling them that vaccines and immunizations were all part of an evil plot by the Western world to sterilize their children… So, of course, being the dutiful, brainwashed Muslims they have become (thanks in no small part due to the relentless work of their “Spiritual leaders”), they decided to forego vaccinations and immunizations for their children… Now, their kids are dying and infections are spreading at an alarming rate to other countries…
For some fascinating reading about a recent outbreak of polio originating in Northern Nigeria and spreading throughout Muslim countries via the Haj pilgrimage, read the article HERE from Western Resistance.
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Measles Outbreak Hits Northern Nigerian State
By Gilbert da Costa – VOA News
Abuja
29 March 2008
Health authorities in Nigeria ‘s northern Katsina state have set up treatment centers to deal with a measles epidemic which has killed nearly two hundred children in the past three months, and infected thousands. For VOA, Gilbert da Costa filed this report from the Nigerian capital, Abuja.
Vaccinations are being distributed across the northern Katsina state to cope with one of the worst measles outbreaks in the region in years.
Some 165 children have been killed and 3,000 cases reported in the past three months. Officials say the death toll could be much higher because many cases are going unreported.
Katsina state’s director of disease control, Halliru Idris, tells VOA that the outbreak is mostly affecting young people who have not been immunized. “I can tell you that over 95 percent of all the children that have measles are those whose parents have not allowed them to receive immunization,” he said.
A handful of radical Islamic clerics instigated a boycott of infant vaccinations in northern Nigeria in 2003 and 2004, alleging that immunization was a western ploy to render Muslim girls infertile. Though the dispute has been resolved, parents still tend to avoid immunization.
Many hundreds of children have died in northern Nigeria since December when the first cases of the highly contagious measles were reported in Kaduna , Kano and Jigawa states.
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