WHO says spread of polio remains international health emergency

If the Taliban believes that the polio vaccine is part of a conspiracy to sterilize Muslim children, then it is no wonder that it so difficult to find common ground with them. The polio vaccine has been around since 1955. (I remember that the lines to take the first vaccine went around the block at our local vaccination point, at the local bank.) If the vaccine were indeed a ploy to induce sterilization among those who take it, then the world population would not have gone from 2.8 billion in 1955 to over 7.6 billion today.

It is ironic that the polio vaccine has contributed to an increase in world population, the exact opposite of what the Taliban believe it causes.

Religion, ignorance and poverty the cause.