[This says it all about the vaccination: poor sanitation, contaminated water supply, and lack of garbage disposal facilities. That has always been the case since 1790. Ignore the real causes of disease, but take the credit when sanitation, clean water etc arrives and does the real job. As Dr Tilden said about Smallpox: "There is no question but that perfect sanitation has almost obliterated this disease, and sooner or later will dispose of it entirely. Of course, when that time comes, in all probability the credit will be given to vaccination."--John Tilden MD, and Nkuba points out: you don't begin with the rarest disease and spend all the government's meagre resources fighting polio, which is not a threat to most people, and then ignore something that is killing them in large numbers like malaria, like AIDS, like cholera, issues to do with sanitation, stunted growth - all the main things that matter to people the government was not fighting. Kihura Nkuba (Nov 2002) That's because polio vaccine is really all about money and Genocide.]
Sindh Today, Pakistan
June 6, 2009
Village boycotts polio campaign to protest civic conditions
Village boycotts polio vaccines until authorities fix many other health
threats
http://www.sindhtoday.net/news/1/17701.htm
LUCKNOW -- Residents of a Muslim-dominated village in Uttar Pradesh are
boycotting the ongoing pulse polio vaccination campaign to protest the
authorities’ indifference to poor civic conditions in their area.
Residents of Sarvat village in the Muzaffarnagar district, about 350 km from
Lucknow, boycotted the vaccination drive May 24 and said they will continue
their protest till their complaints about poor sanitation, contaminated water
supply, and lack of garbage disposal facilities are addressed.
“Not a single parent got their infant administered the vaccine under the
campaign that day (May 24). They (locals) clearly mentioned that they will
continue to oppose the drive even in the next phases,” Mufti Zulfikar, a member
of the district task force of the pulse polio campaign, told IANS on telephone.
“We, along with the district administration, made innumerable attempts to
persuade the parents, but to no avail. They remained adamant on their demands
and refused administration of the vaccine to their infants,” he added.
Residents cite the deplorable sanitation conditions for the incidence of
water-borne diseases in the village, which has a population of about 10,000.
“Go to any place around the village, you will surely find filth and squalor…
clogged drains that have become breeding ground for mosquitoes and other
insects,” said Abdul Qayum, a resident of the village.
Residents also say they have been getting contaminated water supply for over
last seven to eight months.
According to Assad Ahmad, they had made several complaints to the civic
authorities, but to no avail. “We are compelled to consume the acrid water
coming out from the taps,” he said.
Residents allege that the civic authorities are reluctant in carrying out
cleanliness drives in the village. “There are several areas in the village,
where cleanliness drives have not been undertaken for the last six months. With
a strong stench permanently hanging in the air, you just cannot visit those
places without pinching the nose shut,” added Ahmad.
With no garbage disposal system, residents are left with no option than to throw
the domestic waste onto the roads. “In most of the village, you will not find
any garbage bins, due to which the waste here is thrown out in the open,” said
Shariq Ameen, another resident.
The boycott of the vaccination drive has made the state health department and
the district authorities sit up.
“As the boycott can have serious repercussion, we are trying hard to persuade
the villagers. We have even assured the villagers to formulate a master plan,
particularly for their village, for improving the civic facilities there,” city
magistrate Arun Prakash told IANS.
The state’s Director General (Medical and Health) I.S. Srivastava said: “With
the state still grappling with the polio menace, the boycott of the vaccination
programme is quite worrying.”
“We will make every effort to persuade the villagers. They (villagers) should
realise that their protest can prove counterproductive and adversely affect
their children,” he added.
Out of 59 polio cases reported this year till May, 37 cases have been reported
in Uttar Pradesh alone. Of the 37 cases, eight are of P1 virus, while the rest
are of p3 virus. In 2007, 341 polio cases were reported in the state and in
2008, the number of cases was 305.
Health officials say that detection of polio cases caused by the P3 strain of
the virus is a big challenge. Unlike the P1 strain, it hardly responds to the
vaccine. The disease, which is passed on through the faecal-oral route, affects
children up to five years of age. It causes paralysis of the limbs and can be
fatal in severe cases.