Tuesday, December 18, 2012

sigh. foreseeable, lamentable, unintended consequences

Polio rates increasing in Central Asia. Heath workers distributing vaccines killed. Reason? Health workers used as cover by CIA trying to find OBL back in the day, leading to distrust now.

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2012/12/health-workers-killed-trying-deliver-polio-vaccine-pakistan/60100/ 

Map thanks to http://www.polioeradication.org/Dataandmonitoring.aspx

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