TY  - JOUR
T1  - POlio lingers in pakistan
AU  - Friedrich MJ
Y1  - 2012/12/19
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2012.128610
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 2449
EP  - 2449
VL  - 308
IS  - 23
N2  - 
The researchers surveyed 1017 parents of young children living in the country's largest city, Karachi. They also interviewed 30 parents of Pashtun ethnicity, who have the highest rates of polio in the country, who refused to vaccinate. Reasons commonly cited for refusing vaccination include lack of knowledge about the vaccine, lack of faith in the vaccine's effectiveness, misperceptions about adverse effects such as infertility, and fear that the vaccine may contain religiously forbidden ingredients.

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2012.128610
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.128610
ER  -