western4uk's RSS Feed from BlinkList.comBookmark your link with tagging and retrieve it as the word pop up in your mind. Then share great resources with your friends!Guardian Weekly - The Guardian 22nd February 2007- February 22, 2007 The parents of 24,000 children in northern Pakistan refused to allow health workers to administer polio vaccinations last month, mostly because of rumours that the harmless vaccine was an American plot to sterilise Muslim children. The disinformation - spread by extremist clerics using mosque loudspeakers and illegal radio stations, and by word of mouth - has caused a sharp jump in polio cases in Pakistan and damaged global efforts to eradicate the disease.http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianweekly/outlook/story/0,,2018114,00.html |