Patricia Reaney: Polio "could be eradicated" by end of decade. New vaccine strategies could wipe out lingering reservoirs of polio in northern India and lead to global eradication of the crippling disease by the end of the decade, scientists said on Thursday. The infectious illness has been eliminated in developed nations but persists in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in India and in parts of Nigeria, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Aravind Adiga: What's Behind India's Outbreak of Polio Paranoia. A small group of Muslim clerics is spreading the myth that the vaccine is part of a conspiracy to sterilize Muslims -- and as a result, helping to spread a disease many thought was conquered.
[No, really, you get one or you get the other. Either we go with science (always wrong because it can be improved upon) or we go with the invisible monster that lives in the sky (always right or shut up). Select one, and only one.]
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