http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3313419.stm

In November 2004, the World Health Organization reported that, in 2004,

sub-Saharan Africa experienced epidemic poliomyelitis when, from August

2003 to July 2004, the state of Kano, Nigeria, halted immunization
against the disease, and some neighbouring countries had low routine
immunization coverage. As a result, several African countries (Benin,
Chad, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Côte
d'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Togo, Sudan and Botswana in southern
Africa) that had been polio free, reported imported cases of polio -
all linked to wild polio-virus circulating in Northern Nigeria. Polio
has since become re-established (that is, continued circulation for
more than 6 months) in four of these countries - Sudan, Cote d'Ivoire,
Chad and Burkina Faso.

COMMENT:

As I said, religious nuttery. Islamic leaders in Nigeria told their
followers that the US, intent on depopulating the developing world, had
put anti-fertility drugs in the vaccine. The Nigerian government had
tested it, but the state of Kano in Nigeria refused it. Thus starting a
new polio epidemic which has since spread to much of the rest of
Africa, just when wild polio was nearly under control.

http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/tmp­-pmv/2005/polio050527_e.html

I myself think we have a cause to treat such rogue nations as Nigeria
at the national level as we treated Iraq with far less reason, justice,
and provocation.

Here is Nigeria (or a portion of it), engaged in actual germ warfare
with the rest of the world as a result of Islamic propaganda, and we
totally ignored it for a country which we said we thought MIGHT do such
a thing. Apparently, if your country ships oil to the US, your people
can get away with any international act of terror they like.
Afghanistan and Iraq's problem was merely that they weren't pumping to
the US. Nigeria, like Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, was.

Of course, Nigerians themselves suffer when they use their own bodies
to breed polio for the rest of us. Suicide bombers suffer also.
Self-destruction in the furtherance of jihad is an old Muslim
tradition. There is an argument that countries which willfully do this,
whether self-destructively or not, should simply be quaranteened.
Nobody and no goods come out, til they come to their senses. The
Israelis had to threaten to do it to the Palesitinians. It really does
work, if you're willing to back it up.

Of course, that would be seen as an act of war if we did it to Nigeria.
But it's international war, one way or the other. You either get
conventional warfare, or you get terrorist warfare, or you get
biowarfare. Pick which one you want to fight.

(Anything but Iraq!  You can't escape war, but you can certainly escape
fighting the WRONG war. My, but invading Iraq was stupid.)  

SBH