Reuters reports that “top World Health Organization officials and Islamic leaders will meet in Egypt next week in an effort to stop attacks on polio workers, which are hampering the eradication of the virus in some countries with large Muslim populations.” WHO’s Assistant Director-General Bruce Aylward told Reuters in Canberra said, “Shooting health workers who are protecting kids from this crippling disease is against the Koran and everything Islam stands for…Muslim leaders have been great advocates of immunization and generally the support has always been there. In Cairo, we are meeting senior Islamic leaders to get a sense of what we can do, and ask them ‘how can you help us?’”

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/01/us-polio-idUSBRE92005320130301