The use by the US government of a fake vaccination campaign in Pakistan as part of its efforts to find Osama bin Laden was an outrage. Heroic vaccination workers in that and other countries like Afghanistan and Nigeria were already battling obscurantist anti-vaccination Muslim religious leaders who were frightening people by saying that this was some kind of dark western plot. The revelation that the CIA was using the vaccination program for its own ends has given these people support for their allegations and made the work of public health officials that much harder and has led to many health workers had being murdered and the resurgence of this dreaded disease, just when it seemed like it we were on the verge of eradicating it worldwide.
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