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While it seems obvious that this probably didn't help, Atul Gawande's Better (which came out before the CIA business had been exposed) has a really interesting
by epmatsw 11y ago
While it seems obvious that this probably didn't help, Atul Gawande's Better (which came out before the CIA business had been exposed) has a really interesting chapter about polio vaccinations in Pakistan which includes stories about parents hiding their children from the vaccination crews for various non-US-related reasons.
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- indians_pro 11y agocan you list some off the top of your head? At work right now, but im too interested to wait to get home.
- epmatsw 11y agoGeneral distrust of authority leading to rumors about the "true purpose" of the shots. As a specific example, he meets a mother who hid her male infant from the authorities because of a rumor that the shots were designed by Hindus to sterilize Muslim boys.