Nigerian Experts to Determine Safety of Polio Vaccine

12 November 2003

Kano — NIGERIAN experts are expected to complete today the safety test of a of a polio vaccine which Islamic scholars claim is part of a plot to sterilise African mothers, health officials said yesterday.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) warned last month that the crippling polio virus, once all but eradicated, was making a comeback after the failure of immunisation in Nigeria.

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