The end results of an anti-vax mindset:

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Nigerian Officials Try To Contain Measles

"ABUJA, Nigeria, March 30 (UPI) -- Nigerian health officials have opened treatment centers to cope with a measles epidemic that has claimed 165 lives in the past three months.

Officials noted the death toll from the outbreak, which infected more than 3,000 people, could rise as they fear many cases go unreported throughout the country, Voice of America reported.

Fundamentalist Islamic clerics have called for a boycott against measles vaccinations in Nigeria saying the immunization was a plot by Western countries to make Muslim girls infertile."

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2008/03/30/nigerian_officials_try_to_contain_measles/8384/

[lizerdbits]

1. How sad

I hope the anti vaxers don't reach such high numbers that this happens in the rest of the world again. I'm tempted to post this in Health Scare Lounge. It would get less than 5 replies or a couple hundred from a flame fest.

[Book Lover]

3. I cave in to temptation whenever I can...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=222x34183

[TZ]

2. Same thing with Polio

The Clerics have said the same thing about that vaccine.

[dropkickpa]

4. But I had measles when I was a kid!

It didn't kill me, so it mustn't be bad! Evil vaccine manufacturers lie about the complications so they can make lots of money and give kids autism with all of the mercury in it!