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Local religious leaders in Kano, Nigeria hold a meeting to discuss the polio epidemic.

Religious zealotry and misinformation have coerced villagers in the Muslim north of Nigeria into refusing polio vaccinations and led to the reemergence of polio only a few years after it nearly joined smallpox on the CDC's list of eradicated diseases.