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"the only remaining endemic WPV1 strains are now restricted to Pakistan and Afghanistan." Not mentioned is that this is likely due to the hunt for Osama bin La
by jf 11y ago
"the only remaining endemic WPV1 strains are now restricted to Pakistan and Afghanistan."
Not mentioned is that this is likely due to the hunt for Osama bin Laden: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-cia-fake-vaccination-campaign-endangers-us-all/ http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-cia-fake-vacci...
- bdamm 11y agoThe US needs to start paying fines for this kind of behavior. Except of course we won't. But it makes me mad that this kind of thing happens and there's nothing that will be done to claim justice.
- falsestprophet 11y agoIs the US really at fault here, rather than the radical Islamist lunatics running these areas?
- eropple 11y agoThe US that put up fake vaccination centers in the pursuit of an already-minimized threat? Why, yes, yes it is. Thank you for asking.
- falsestprophet 11y ago"The US that put up fake vaccination centers in the pursuit of an already-minimized threat?" In fairness, they gave out actual vaccines not fake vaccines so it wasn't a "fake vaccination program." I was a real vaccination program that also did a bit of assassination of international terrorists on the side. So, on balance it was a very positive program for the community.
- tripzilch 11y agoYes. Read the full story of how it went down (recommended; it's a fascinating read): http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n10/seymour-m-hersh/the-killing-of-osama-bin-laden http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n10/seymour-m-hersh/the-killing-of-... Bottom line is, mistakes were made, and getting your revenge on some old dude is not worth destroying decades of work trying to get a population to trust vaccination programs.
- cbd1984 11y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10349115 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10349115 That article is questionable at best.
- tripzilch 11y agoUm that's a bit of an extremely polarising conclusion to take away from elemenopy's comment. "Questionable at best" tries to imply something entirely different than what was being said, which is that Hersh's claims were bold, not entirely backed up and subject to criticism. "Questionable in part", al right, but extending that to "questionable at best" sounds like you're pushing your own agenda here. Maybe you just worded yourself too strongly, but if you decide to stick with that, please explain to everyone how the claims about what the US did to the vaccination programs in order to get to Bin Laden, made in Hersh's article, are either "questionable" or "worse". Because as far as I've been able to check, Hersh's claims about the actions regarding vaccination programs part of the story (which is just a small part--but the part we are discussing here) are not being criticized by anyone in particular, except by those painting with the very broad brush that the entire story is questionable. Like you are doing.
- tomjen3 11y agoThat still wouldn't be a problem if the local authorities trusted the vaccines - all it would mean is that they would receive it from somewhere else, Russia or China and administer it themselves.
- hsod 11y ago"Likely due to" seems like an overstatement. That is, the implied claim: "WPV1 would be likely be eradicated right now if not for the hunt for Osama Bin Laden" does not ring true.
- tripzilch 11y agoI agree. But it definitely caused a huge bump in the road.