Now here’s a truly bizarre story reported by Arab News. Polls of Saudi doctors indicate that they would neither take swine flu vaccinations nor permit their children to have them.
That’s pretty shocking, I think, but then I notice that the polls were conducted by Islamtoday.com. I’m not at all convinced that this is an organization that should be doing polling on medical issues, particularly ones wrapped up in genocidal conspiracy theories. The report does not say how representative the polls were, but I’m hoping that they’re gravely unrepresentative.
Poll: Doctors will not give H1N1 shots to their kids
Muhammad Humaidan | Arab NewsJEDDAH: About 80 percent of doctors and medical practitioners who took part in a recent survey said they would not take the anti-swine flu vaccine and would not give it to their children.
Dr. Saleh Al-Suqair, an internist and member of the teaching staff at King Saud University in Riyadh, said the survey was carried by Islamtoday.com website. The survey was carried out among medical consultants, university professors and medical students.
The website has published three surveys, the first covering 60 consultants and medical professors who were selected randomly from Saudi hospitals and medical colleges. The survey focused on the opinions of internists, pediatricians and family doctors.
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