Polio Ward Overburdened in Nigeria
KANO, NIGERIA - APRIL 13: A child cries as his polio strickened legs are placed in casts at Murtala Muhammed Public Hospital April 13, 2005 in Kano, Nigeria. Polio, a disease that health workers once had hoped to eradicate worldwide by 2005, is on the march again in Kano, where local Islamic leaders banned the polio vaccine two years ago over post Sept. 11 suspicions of everything Western. Children who caught polio during the haitus in innoculations are flooding the underfunded polio ward