Kano — Nigeria's predominantly Muslim Kano State, which is boycotting a global
polio immunisation programme on suspicion that the vaccines are tainted by
anti-fertility substances, plans to order its own supplies from Muslim
countries in Asia, a senior official said on Sunday.
Sule Ya'u Sule, spokesman for the Kano government, told reporters that
authorities in the northern state still considered vaccines procured through
the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund
(UNICEF) unsafe after finding traces of oestrogen in the oral vaccine.
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