tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10459981.post8855903276305629406..comments2023-09-28T15:35:46.255+01:00Comments on <center>FIDDAMAN BLOG</center>: Is GlaxoSmithKline Behaving Badly in Argentina?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10459981.post-80694250957260655172008-09-29T13:25:00.000+01:002008-09-29T13:25:00.000+01:00The Kano BlackmailI enjoyed reading your article. ...The Kano Blackmail<BR/>I enjoyed reading your article. My heart goes out to the parents. In matters of this nature, judging from experience, I just hope that we are being fed with the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. The Kano example you cited is one interesting case I have been following for quite some time. I have lived in Kano and know the place quite well. Anyone giving the impression that Kano has genuine fears in rejecting polio vaccination in 2004 does not understand the issues at play. <BR/>The elite of that city have always hidden under the umbrella of their Islamic religion to keep the people ignorant of their rights. Consider the fact that all the government officials and traditional rulers who were telling the people to shun the polio immunization exercise had themselves ensured that their own children were immunized. You won’t find a polio sufferer among the children of any emir, governor or commissioner. All their own children have been immunized. It is only the children of the poor that fall for the trick. <BR/>That is the same problem with Pfizer’s intervention during the cerebro-spinal meningitis epidemic. Pfizer came to help us. Doctors Without Borders also came to assist. The reason Pfizer is being vilified now is that the elite think they can blackmail the pharmaceutical giant to part with huge sums of money. They are not blackmailing DWB because those ones don’t have money to spare. I came to this conclusion when I found out that the survival rate of Pfizer was better than that of Doctors Without Borders – and nobody is interested in suing the DWB. Some people make money out of people’s misery. The Kano case is increasingly looking like that. By the way, I’m a proud Muslim. But I would rather die than see the unjust vilification of an innocent individual or organization.Pharmawatchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10457850509306838657noreply@blogger.com