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What the US could learn about vaccination from Nigeria

  • Written by Shobana Shankar, Associate Professor, History/Africana Studies, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
What the US could learn about vaccination from NigeriaTwo women sell roadside refreshments in rural Kano in 2011.Shobana Shankar, CC BY-SA

To consider that Nigeria, infamous for anti-vaxx campaigns leading to polio outbreaks, has any lessons for Americans may be shocking.

But as measles cases in the U.S. climb to an all-time high after the disease was declared eliminated in 2000, U.S. public health...

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