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While men break to pray, Ward Kwciri IPD focal person Auwalu Sulaiman seated, counts tallies at the end of day one of the immunization campaign. Polio vaccinators fanned out across the Fagge Government Area, in Ward Kwciri, looking for children under the age of five on day one of the Immunization Plus Day, (IPD) sponsored by UNICEF around Kano, Nigeria. 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 IDC’s list of eradicated diseases.