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Declining vaccination rates in Pakistan have been linked to operations undertaken by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in 2011 apparently under the guise of
CIA’s fake vaccine campaign to find Osama bin Laden in Pakistan led to drop in child inoculations Ben Farmer © RIZWAN TABASSUM /AFP A health worker administers polio vaccine drops to a child during a polio vaccination door-to-door campaign in Pakistan's port city of Karachi - RIZWAN TABASSUM /AFP A CIA fake vaccine campaign to seek out Osama bin Laden in his Pakistan hideout led to a significant fall in children's vaccinations, researchers have found. The ruse led to vaccination rates falling by almost two-fifths in areas with strong support for hardline extremist pol...
How a CIA trap for Bin Laden led to vaccine hesitancy in Pakistan How a CIA trap for Bin Laden l... The CIA used a free vaccination campaign as a way to obtain samples of children's DNA that could be used to confirm Bin Laden's presence 1/1 The CIA used a free vaccination campaign as a way to obtain samples of children's DNA that could be used to confirm Bin Laden's presence A new study from a pair of European researchers has found a covert CIA plot to capture Osama Bin Laden in early 2011 led to significant drops in vaccination rates in Pakistan. The plot, using a fak...
A new paper in the Journal of the European Economic Association, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that distrust generated by a 2011 CIA-led vaccination campaign ruse designed to catch Osama Bin Laden resulted in a significant vaccination rate decline in Pakistan. Using a local doctor, the US Central Intelligence Organization planned an immunization plan in Pakistan to obtain DNA samples of children living in a compound in Abbottabad where American authorities suspected Bin Laden was hiding in order to obtain proof of Bin Laden's location (because the presence of close relati...