Boko haram insurgency5/28/2023 ![]() "The problems are intertwined," said Renne, author of The Politics of Polio in Northern Nigeria. Medical anthropologist Elisha Renne, of the University of Michigan, say there's no way to stop the spread of polio without addressing the unrest wrought by Boko Haram, the militant Islamist sect infamous for its kidnapping of more than 200 girls in April. Nigeria is closer than ever before to stopping transmission of the paralyzing childhood disease of polio, but world health experts suggest that the Boko Haram insurgency in the north could jeopardize the eradication effort in one of the last countries where the disease prevails.
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