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Indonesia Reports Second Polio Victim
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Outbreak has been traced to northern Nigeria, where Muslim clerics
triggered immunization boycott, claiming polio vaccine was
contaminated in plot by Western nations to sterilize Muslim girls or
spread AIDS Indonesia says another child on Java Island has been
diagnosed with polio.







Fauziah, center, suspected to have polio which paralized her right
leg, cries as her mother and a relative assist her to stand at their
home in Giri Jaya villageHealth officials say the new case, a
20-month-old girl, is in the same district where an 18-month-old boy
was diagnosed with the disease.

They are Indonesia's first confirmed cases of polio since 1995.

Jakarta is preparing to vaccinate at least five million children in
the region.

Indonesia is now the 16th country where polio has reappeared since
2003, and the first outside Africa and the Middle East.

The outbreak has been traced to northern Nigeria, where Muslim clerics
triggered an immunization boycott, claiming the polio vaccine was
contaminated in a plot by Western nations to sterilize Muslim girls or
spread AIDS.


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