#Polio Eradication : The Bad News Continues | Wired
►http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/01/polio-more-bad
The crisis in Pakistan is not just about the changeable fortunes of the polio campaign, which has waxed and waned in public opinion since its launch in 1988. It is specifically in response to the admitted-to ruse by the CIA, which used a pretense of administering injectable hepatitis B vaccine in an attempt to harvest DNA from children who were believed to be related to bin Laden, as a way of proving he was in a particular area. They did not succeed – his location was proven by other means — but the damage to public heath looks to be long-lasting.
So long-lasting, in fact, that the deans of 12 public-health schools in the United States (Columbia, Emory, Harvard and others) have sent an open appeal to President Obama excoriating the CIA attempt and asking that it never happen again.