Resisting the Resistance in the ‘Land of Rivers’

“I was scared and angry. I decided not to immunize my children anymore”, as Abdul Hai Seikh was narrating his trepidation, the climatic mugginess of Dhubri at the bank of Brahmaputra and ‘mora’ Gadadhar was creating droplets of perspiration on his forehead. Abdul, the father of two, became firm in his resistance against vaccination after his younger child developed fever post vaccination.