Health workers in Nigeria and Pakistan were killed in 2012 and 2013 while carrying out vaccination programmes for what?
Vaccination and religion example, at least 200 children died in a late-2007 measles outbreak in Borno State. In 2013, nine health workers administering polio vaccine were targeted and killed by gunmen on motorcycles in Kano, but this was an isolated incident. Local traditional and religious leaders and polio survivors worked to support the vaccination campaign, and Nigeria has not had a polio case since July 24, 2014; in 2017, if no new cases appear, Nigeria will be declared polio-free. In the 2000s, in Pakistan and Afghanistan, some Taliban issued "fatwas" opposing vaccination as an American plot to sterilize Muslims, and kidnapped, beat, and
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