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What Led to the Nigerian Boycott of the Polio Vaccination Campaign

BPSDB Regular readers will know that one of my interests is junk science in other times and places, largely because I think we can learn a lot from other cultures when it comes to dealing with quacks. Well, in the wake of continuing debate over vaccination, here's an interesting case of anti-vax mentality from Nigeria, as described in the PLoS Medicine paper "What Led to the Nigerian Boycott of the Polio Vaccination Campaign?", by Ayodele Samuel Jegede [1].

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