ABUJA, Nigeria, July 3 (UPI) -- An outbreak of polio has hit children in the Nigerian state of Kano, a state that boycotted the polio vaccine, Medical News Today reported Saturday.
Many Muslim states in Nigeria banned the polio vaccine because those in charge feared Americans were using the vaccines to make their population infertile. Many claimed the vaccine would also be used to spread AIDS in the region.
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The World Health Organization sent a team to the area that confirmed the outbreak was polio.
It was only during May 2004 that officials in Kano decided to resume polio vaccinations because the new batch came from Indonesia, a Muslim country.
