Last year, incredibly, there was an outbreak of polio which spread to several surrounding coutries due to an identical accusation by Muslim Clerics in Nigeria regarding nefarious motivations behind vaccinations...
See picture above for a baby blinded by measles seen in Jos last week.The left eye was enucleated. Devin did an optical iridectomy in the hope of giving the baby even a slight bit of vision in the right eye.
(Thanks to Devin for the link below).
ABC News: Anti-Vaccine Sentiment Plagues Nigeria: "Accusations by Islamic preachers that vaccines are part of an American anti-Islamic plot are threatening efforts to combat a measles epidemic that has killed hundreds of Nigerian children, health workers say. "
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