Monday, February 23, 2004

Uncle Darwin visits Nigeria

CNN reports that the state of Kano in Nigeria has blocked a polio immunization campaign on account if it being a U.S. plot to spread AIDS and infertility among Moslems. The story is a continuation of the story they ran in October about three Moslem states in Nigeria banning polio vaccination. (The other two states have since come to their senses.) Never mind that the rest of the world, including the rest of the Moslem world, got immunized against polio long ago and still hasn't died out from AIDS and infertility. Nigeria now accounts for about half of polio cases in the world and is spreading it to the neighboring countries.

Speaking about infertility, who do they think is gonna have sex with their children after they are crippled by polio? OTOH they might have fewer chances to get AIDS for the very same reason.


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