Fears of Polio Vaccine Grip Nigeria
The World Health Organization’s goal of eradicating polio worldwide by 2005 ran into a major obstacle in October 2003 when three Nigerian states suspended polio vaccination over fears that the vaccine could cause AIDS, cancer and infertility.
The largely-Muslim northern states of Kaduna, Kano and Zamfra ordered a stop to a WHO-sponsored vaccination program. Reuters quoted Dr. Datti Ahmed, president of Nigeria’s Supreme Council for Sharia Law, as saying,
A lot of documents have come into our possession indicating there are grave doubts and concerns about the safety of the oral polio vaccine being used in Nigeria. We therefore called on the authorities to suspend the immunization program and investigate these fears.
WHO representatives dismissed such objections saying the polio vaccine was safe.
Unfortunately, Nigeria is one of only 7 countries where the disease is still prevalent and many children there are not vaccinated. Authorities worry that the disease could expand from Nigeria into surrounding countries. According to WHO representative Dr. David Heymann,
In some parts of Nigeria, only 13 percent of children have been vaccinated, largely because of the fears about it that have been disseminated. Nigeria is now exporting the disease. It has already cost Nigeria’s five neighbors $13 million to launch their own campaigns against it and that could go up to $20 million if it is confirmed that Chad has cases.
The government set up a group to test the polio virus, but that group dealt another setback to the polio eradication in January when it issued results claiming it found high levels of estrogen in the polio vaccine which would render those who received the vaccine infertile.
Both the WHO and the Nigerian state dismissed these claims, but WHO’s efforts to vaccinate children in Nigeria appears to have been severely set back which bodes ill both for the children there who are unnecessarily exposed to the risk of contracting polio as well as neighboring states and the rest of the world that would like to see polio eradicated.
Source:
Health experts losing battle to promote polio vaccine in Nigeria. AFP, Friday January 9, 2004.
Nigeria orders polio vaccine tests. Associated Press, October 29, 2003.
Nigeria debates polio campaign. Anna Borzello, The BBC, December 22, 2003.
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June 28th, 2008 at 5:28 am
Is there any update on this situation? I’m trying to find out if they are vaccinating all children now in Nigera (for Polio).
July 4th, 2009 at 9:43 am
date : July 4, 009.
Indian
remember the shastra,
brahma [ god ] said that : -
satoguna, rajoguna, tamogun mai hun
nirgun hai mera nam,
satya sanantan nirankar main hun
bhaktai ke hun pran.
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Janani janma bhumishcha, sorgadapi gariyasi.
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Om sarbe bhabanti sukhin
Sarbe shantu niramaya,
Sarbe bhadrani pashenti
Ma kasy dukha bha bhabet.
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Buddir yashya balam tashya
Nirbuddirshya kuto balam.
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Bidhya dhanam sarba dhanam pradhanam.
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Santosum parmum sukham.
Satyam badha,
Dharmam char.
Sarbatra, aur sab me bhagban birajman hai.kan kan me hai bhagaban.
Atma kabhe nahi marega.atma ajar, amar hai.
Atma parmatma ke he ansa hai.
Man , bachan, karma se hinsa nahi Karen.
Chandal , kutte,… ki hirdaya me bhi bhagaban birajman hain.
Atma, parmatma ko chino.
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date : June 20, 009.
Subject: dharma
Over populated Indian
According to shastra
Try our best to become bal brahmachari and try our best to continue it for whole lives. so that we can attain moksha [ no need to come to the 84 lakhas yonies for birth and death cycles ] after this lives. If we can not become bal brahmachari or not successful to maintain it for the whole lives, even then we can maintain the bramacharya in our married lives with dharmayukta family lives. With dharmayukta family lives = dharmic jeevan we can earn punya [ dharmic assets earn by good deeds ]. Manusya chola [human lives] is uttam [ best ] chola [ lives ] among the 84 lakhas yonies [all types of living beings in earth ]. Because of manusya chola [ lives ] we can do dharm , earn punya in our lives.. Because manushya lives is chaitany chola [ we do have higher level of thingkings, so that we can differentiate good and bad, pap and punya,……….. ] but remaining other 84 lakhs yonies [ living being ] are not chaitanya chola [ having higher level of thinking ], so that those remaining 84 lakhas yonies can not do dharm and earn puny as we human being can do dharma and earn punya in our lives. As we are having chaitanya chola we can do dharma, earn punya, so that we can go to the heaven and pass happy lives there till our punya remain as assets . even with our dharmic jeevan [ dharmic lives ] if we can not do that much dharma and earn that much punya to become moksha or go to the heaven , at least we will be able to get dharmic parents [ dharmic parents means those parents who are dharmic pitaji[ father ] and patibrata, punyawati, punyashila ,.. mataji [ mother ] to whom we will be able to get in our next lives. If we get dharmic parents [ born by the above mentioned father and mother’s kokha ] our lives will become pure [ dhanya ], so that we will be able continuously do more dharma, earn more punya in each our successive human lives, by getting the above mentioned dharmic parents in our successive human lives. by getting the above mentioned dharmic parents in our successive human lives we will do more and more dharma and earn more and more punya in our successive human lives. When we continuously do more and more dharma, earn more and more punya in our successive human lives, we will be able to attain the moksha or go to the heaven, according to our punnya asset.
Indian
Remember shastra : – let us avoid kama , krodha, lobha, moha in our lives.
Let us earn dharm , artha, kama , moksha.
Let us remember that in the whole world, whole universe, there are three types of
guna [ characters ], which are satto, rajo and tamo , including we human being.
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Date 19 june 009.
cheater Indian,
remember the ved : – asoto ma sat gamay, tamso ma jotir gamaya, mirtur ma amrit gamaya,…………
you
noisy, quarrelsome, violent, dry, dusty, rusty, semi barren,……… hot, desert,………..loving Indian,
remember shastra : – om dev shanti, antariksha shanti, prithibi shanti, rap shanti, ausadhaya shanti, banspataya shanti,….
Always over populated, always over crowded, always congested,…, due to always giving birth to many many children in each generation, when small pox eradicated , cholera, acute gastro enteritis, bacillary dysenteries, malaria, kalazar [ lesmeniasis ],tuberculosis, rabies, severe pneumonia in children, ……., all together which used to kill millions of human population almost every year in India, other south Asian countries, other Asian countries, in all African countries, in all the south American countries [ in all third world countries ]. As the progress of sciences, technologies, in Europe and America, specially since last about 150 years, the good hearted people of Europe and America were and are helping in education, health sciences, skill development, prevention, treatment,. of above mentioned fatal diseases which were causing millions of death of human population almost every year in India, other south Asian countries, other Asian countries, in all African countries, in all the south American countries [ in all third world countries ] were and are gradually under control. as result there was and is continuously, always un manageable, rapidly increasing the human population, who were and are always lazy, always not creative, nice, polite, not trying to be good, disciplined, educated, well mannered, Nobel, excellent, civilized, rather always prone to become criminals, rowdy, destructive, spoiled, cruel, ill mannered, burdened population [ always criminal mind, lazy bone, hungry mouth, giving birth to many children like dogs ]…… in all third world countries of Asia, Africa, south America, Oceania, in all the tropical islands territories, of the whole world.
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…… date : June 18, 009.
Present world ‘s all human being from third world, second world to
first world, from not developed to highly developed countries, from
laborer class to rich people , from residents of remote areas :
forests living tribal communities to mega cities living urban
population, from illiterate population to highly educated population,
from presidents , prime minister to king, queen , from ordinary
families to royal families,., from the population who
are
living in very hot topical climate to very cold tundra regions, higher
altitude mountainous regions,….., from modern population to extremely primitive cave, forests,. …,Living primitive population OF THILD WORLD COUNTRIES,…………,, each and every action of all above mentioned ever increasing more than 7 billions population of earth, are continuously adding the temperature of earth causing continuously raising the temperature of earth. Not a single activity of above mentioned ever increasing, Present world ‘s all human being [ human population ] of earth is cooling the earth.
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from third world, second world to
first world, from not developed to highly developed countries, from
laborer class to rich people , from residents of remote areas :
forests living tribal communities to mega cities living urban
population, from illiterate population to highly educated population,
from presidents , prime minister to king, queen , from ordinary
families to royal families,., from the population who
are
living in very hot topical climate to very cold tundra regions, higher
altitude mountainous regions, all of them are continuously
addicted to alcohol, luxurious food, lazy lives, luxurious lives,
consumer lives, immoral, corrupted, vulgar, sexy, porn ,lives
.
the trend are ever increasing day by day all over the world, if to
days human being do not try for correction, modification,, for
better, then the human being of whole world will be ruined, destroyed
very soon in future .