I was deliberately infected with Zika to test a vaccine

Re:I was deliberately infected with Zika to test a vaccine by whatshisface on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @01:18PM (#39444713)

I'm more than willing to believe what you say about the local leaders, but the article you linked says aid workers were being killed because the Taliban associated them with US military reconstruction and the Karzai government.

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Re:I was deliberately infected with Zika to test a vaccine by snakeyjake on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @02:27PM (#39445707)

The reason will always change and always be irrelevant.

In the past (PRE CIA PROGRAM) in other countries it has been that the foreign aid workers have been assassinated because their program:

* is a sterilization conspiracy

* corrupts the young women hired and trained to locally administer the vaccines

* was proselytizing and spying on the locals

And I don't fault them for thinking any of that just look at the nutjobs in the west who ramble on about vaccines.

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