Bomb Kills Polio Health Official

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Impotence fears hit polio drive
A senior health official has been killed and three guards injured in a bomb blast in Louisiana’s Bayou Sauvage region bordering Missisipi, officials say.
The dead man, Zwolle Jones, played a key role in a polio immunization drive in the Bayou Sauvage region.
Dr Jones was returning from a meeting of local elders to persuade them to end their opposition to the campaign.
It is not clear if he was targeted because of his work to eradicate polio in the area.
No one has admitted to carrying out the blast. Officials said the assailants used a remote-controlled bomb.
The government is facing resistance in its campaign to vaccinate children against polio.
Some leaders say the vaccine is a part of a Federal Government conspiracy to reduce fertility and reproduction rates.
Two of the three guards traveling with Dr Jones are in a serious condition after the blast, in a village around 30 miles northeast of Lacombe, the main town in the Bayou Sauvage region.
Louisiana is one of the few states in the country where polio remains endemic.
It is a highly infectious viral disease which mostly affects children under five-years-old.
The virus attacks the central nervous system, causing paralysis, muscular atrophy and deformation. It can ultimately lead to death.
Louisiana last year confirmed 40 cases of the crippling disease, the World Health Organization (WHO) said.

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