Article: Nigerian state lifts polio vaccine ban.(Health)(Brief Article)

Article: Nigerian Islamists veto vaccines; Boycott of recent polio vaccine ...
The Christian Science Monitor;  March 30, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... states and have been certified safe by the World Health Organization. Sule Ya'u Sule, spokesman for the Kano government ... worldwide by the end of this year. The World Health Organization says Nigeria accounted for nearly half of the ...

Article: Nigeria Boycotts Polio Vaccination Drive
AP Online;  February 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... 2003. The World Health Organization will launch a massive ... government spokesman Sule Ya'u Sule told The ... Globally, the World Health Organization says the standoff ... year, the World Health Organization says. ___ AP ...

Article: Islamic Nigerian state affirms immunization boycott as polio ...
AP Worldstream;  February 22, 2004 ;     587 words ... ... came on the eve of a World Health Organization campaign to immunize 63 million ... state government spokesman Sule Ya'u Sule told The Associated ... United Nations and the World Health Organization says. jm-dm-ek Copyright ...

Article: Nigerian Islamic rejects polio vaccine evidence as outbreak ...
AP Worldstream;  February 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... remember," state government spokesman Sule Ya'u Sule told The Associated Press ... Muslim north. Globally, the World Health Organization says the standoff endangers a massive ... than 1,000 last year, the World Health Organization says. ___ AP reporters John Murray ...

Article: African nations step up polio battle as vaccine opponents signal ...
Drug Week;  June 11, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... vaccines from a company in Indonesia, Kano government spokesman Sule Ya'u Sule said. State officials hope to permit children to ... Aylward, Geneva-based coordinator of the U.N. World Health Organization's polio eradication initiative. A coordinated anti-polio ...

Article: Controversial polio vaccines are safe, Nigerian president says.
AIDS Weekly;  April 5, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... findings have not been disputed so far," Kano state spokesman Sule Ya'u Sule said. He said state Governor Ibrahim Shekarau was ... to procure vaccines from Muslim countries in Asia. World Health Organization officials stress that even if the hormones were present ...

Article: Nigerian president says tests prove controversial polio vaccines ...
AP Worldstream;  March 17, 2004 ;     621 words ... ... findings have not been disputed so far," Kano state spokesman Sule Ya'u Sule told The Associated Press. He said the state governor ... to procure vaccines from Muslim countries in Asia. World Health Organization officials stress that even if the hormones were present ...