Really? Hundreds of parents jailed in Pakistan for not giving children polio vaccine–a vaccine stopped in the US in 2000 after causing 144 paralytic polio cases, due to reversion to virulence and prolonged fecal excretion of live virus/ Guardian and CDC
Pakistan jails 471 parents who refused to give polio vaccine to children–The Guardian Parents in north-west of country were imprisoned under government orders on charges of endangering public security A health worker gives a polio vaccine to a child in Peshawar, Pakistan. Photograph: Mohammad Sajjad/AP Endemic polio was eliminated in the US by 1980. Nearly…