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While it seems obvious that this probably didn't help, Atul Gawande's Better (which came out before the CIA business had been exposed) has a really interesting chapter about polio vaccinations in Pakistan which includes stories about parents hiding their children from the vaccination crews for various non-US-related reasons.

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can you list some off the top of your head? At work right now, but im too interested to wait to get home.

General distrust of authority leading to rumors about the "true purpose" of the shots. As a specific example, he meets a mother who hid her male infant from the authorities because of a rumor that the shots were designed by Hindus to sterilize Muslim boys.

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