The World Health Organisation are stating that Northern Nigerian authorities in Kano are willing to restart vaccination with polio vaccine. A vaccine produced in Indonesia has been found to be acceptable. While the unfounded allegations of a conspiracy by the US depopulate Northern with contaminated vaccines has not been withdrawn, at least vaccination will now occur, mitigating the risk of further large outbreaks of polio in the region.
Religious leaders in Kano refuse to accept they are responsible for the outbreaks of polio in Africa:
Earlier this week, Kano government officials said they would not be intimidated by a new WHO report blaming its stoppage of the immunization program for a resurgence of polio cases all across Africa, from nearby Ivory Coast to Botswana in southern Africa. A state spokesman said just a handful of children were identified as having polio in Kano as of last year, and that it is unlikely those few children could be responsible for spreading the virus throughout sub-Saharan Africa.According to the WHO, about 90 percent of the polio strains paralyzing African children in 2004 have been traced to a strain found in Nigeria. One of the most recent cases was in Sudan, where a child was found to be afflicted with the same strain of the disease as is found in Nigeria.