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/ 29 April 2005

Nigerian state to jail parents who resist polio vaccines

Katsina State in northern Nigeria will jail any parents who refuse to allow health workers to vaccinate their children against the crippling polio virus. Northern Nigeria is home to the world’s biggest remaining pocket of polio infections and resistance from Muslim families, who fear a plot to sterilise infant girls, has endangered a plan to eradicate the disease this year.