[Vice]
“While hunting for Osama bin Laden, the CIA organized a fake hepatitis B vaccination program. Now, after years of distrust, Pakistanis don’t want to get the coronavirus vaccine.”
“In May 2014, over the course of a decade and though the White House announced that the CIA would no longer use vaccination programs as cover for espionage, Pakistan moved from being a country that had almost eradicated polio to one whose polio cases accounted for a whopping 85 percent of the global share.”
“The Pakistani Taliban banned polio vaccines in the country’s tribal areas, linking the ban to American drone strikes and the CIA’s prior use of vaccination programs for espionage purposes. After repeated attacks and assassination attempts on health workers administering vaccines—nine were shot dead in December 2012, another seven in January 2013—the United Nations suspended their polio eradication campaign in the country.”
Read more: In Pakistan, Legacy of Fake CIA Vaccination Programs Leads to Vaccine Hesitancy
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