Nigeria: What Is the Recommended Dose of Polio Vaccine?

opinion

Once again, one cannot help but stoke the embers of the polio controversy by asking questions on the dose of polio vaccine being shot into our children, routinely, like food. I was incensed when I read in the Thursday, 25th January 2007, edition of Daily Trust an advert form Rotary International calling on people to submit their children as guinea pigs for another nebulous round of immunisation, which we know no end of.

I deemed it important to add my voice, since I am not a Muslim who can be labelled an 'Islamic extremist' that is opposed to modernisation, as has been the direction of the debate in the past. The whole Polio controversy has been so slanted by religious dogmatism and blackmail, covert intimidation and brazen coercion that one is incensed that otherwise rational minds have turned their backs to reason. How else can one feel when the bases of scientific enquiry are being jettisoned, in the face of nothing but a triviality called polio, relative to calamities such as HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Malaria and Malnutrition?

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