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Huh. I thought that this was common knowledge. > The Taliban began assassinating polio workers the year after the CIA used a vaccination campaign for hepatitis
by mirimir 6y ago
Huh. I thought that this was common knowledge.
> The Taliban began assassinating polio workers the year after the CIA used a vaccination campaign for hepatitis B, not polio, to identify Osama bin Laden's hideout in Abbottabad.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/03/150303-polio-pakistan-islamic-state-refugees-vaccination-health/ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/03/150303-polio...
> There has been opposition to such immunisation drives from some powerful clerics while a fake CIA vaccination campaign, which helped to locate Osama Bin Laden in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad, is thought to have had a detrimental effect as well.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18868267 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18868267
- selimthegrim 6y agoYeah but it's quite a leap from polio vaccinators getting waxed and Shakil Afridi being jailed to "Doctors have a bad reputation in Pakistan" and then imply it's because it's a Muslim country. Many (even conservative) parents send their daughters to publicly financed medical colleges often to increase their marriage prospects. Does that sound like a thing they would do if doctors had a bad rap? Doctors came out and criticized the clerics for lack of adherence to social distancing, I didn't see anyone call them un-Islamic for standing their ground.
- mirimir 6y agoMaybe so. But I never claimed that it was mainstream in Pakistan. Just that it might account for this in ramraj07's comment:[0] > Further, there's a great amount of scrutiny into whether anyone's sick (see the reports of doctors getting beaten up even by the cops). Perhaps they could share a link about that. 0) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23005076 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23005076