Gunmen Kill Nigerian Polio Vaccine Workers In Echo of Pakistan Attacks by Donald G. McNeil. Jr. The New York Times. February 8, 2013.
While it is not certain who killed the polio immunization workers, suspicion fell upon a militant Islamist group with a history of attacks on government offices. The immunization effort in Nigeria is in many ways a case study of how rumors, political suspicion, and religion have impacted public health efforts and, in some cases, endangered public health workers.
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