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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)
Two 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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