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Declining vaccination rates in Pakistan linked to CIA

CIA s fake vaccine campaign to find Osama bin Laden in Pakistan led to drop in child inoculations

CIA’s fake vaccine campaign to find Osama bin Laden in Pakistan led to drop in child inoculations Ben Farmer © RIZWAN TABASSUM /AFP A health worker administers polio vaccine drops to a child during a polio vaccination door-to-door campaign in Pakistan s port city of Karachi  - RIZWAN TABASSUM /AFP A CIA fake vaccine campaign to seek out Osama bin Laden in his Pakistan hideout led to a significant fall in children s vaccinations, researchers have found. The ruse led to vaccination rates falling by almost two-fifths in areas with strong support for hardline extremist political parties. The findings in the Journal of the European Economic Association come as doctors worry that lingering suspicion from the affair may undermine a Covid-19 vaccine rollout.

CIA s misleading inoculation drive led to vaccine decline in Pakistan

A new paper in the Journal of the European Economic Association, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that distrust generated by a 2011 CIA-led vaccination campaign ruse designed to catch Osama Bin Laden resulted in a significant vaccination rate decline in Pakistan. Using a local doctor, the US Central Intelligence Organization planned an immunization plan in Pakistan to obtain DNA samples of children living in a compound in Abbottabad where American authorities suspected Bin Laden was hiding in order to obtain proof of Bin Laden s location (because the presence of close relatives would be a likely indication of Bin Laden s presence). Without consent from the Pakistani health authorities, the doctor began to administer hepatitis B vaccines to children in Abbottabad. The Guardian published an article revealing the vaccine project shortly after a United States military special operations unit killed Bin Laden on May 2, 2011.

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