Techdirt has an article titled, You Can Thank The CIA For The Return Of Polio, Even Though The Media Conveniently Ignores This.
Sure, here in the US we're dealing with the return of diseases like measles, mumps and whooping cough due to people who are very confused about how vaccines work. But the big news last week on the vaccine front has to be the return of polio, which has freaked out the World Health Organization, who declared it a public health emergency.
The return of polio is also due to an ill-informed anti-vaccine campaign not one driven by people confused by a fraudulent study, but rather by the Taliban. Many of the new cases are in Pakistan and a variety of nearby countries. The Taliban has been arguing for a while that vaccinations and vaccination drives are really efforts by western intelligence and/or imperialism. The problem is: the CIA basically confirmed that for them by using a fake vaccination campaign to find Osama bin Laden a few years ago.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 15 2014, @06:08PM
This was covered last year in Scientific American. Leslie F. Roberts of Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health estimates 100,000 more polio cases will occur in Pakistan alone over the next 20 years due to the CIA and Obama's actions in killing their White Whale.
The CIA, Obama, and the American people should be ashamed.
This is the article:- fake-vaccination-campaign-endangers-us-all/ [scientificamerican.com]
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-cia