Thursday, April 26, 2018
''How My Saudi Husband Killed Our Daughters'' Nigerian Woman Shares Her Story
A Nigeria woman, Fatima Mohamid Khalil, has narrated how her Saudi Arabian husband allegedly slaughtered their three daughters on Sunday in Al-Rawdah District, Makkah. Fatima Mohamid Khalil said she would never go back to her apartment in Al-Rawdah District in Makkah, so as not to see the blood of her daughters. The mother, in her late 20s, had a nervous breakdown and was taken to King Faisal Hospital in Al-Shesha where she was sedated.
THIS DAY IN HISTORY APR 26- 1954 Polio vaccine trials begin
On this day in 1954, the Salk polio vaccine field trials, involving 1.8 million children, begin at the Franklin Sherman Elementary School in McLean, Virginia. Children in the United States, Canada and Finland participated in the trials, which used for the first time the now-standard double-blind method, whereby neither the patient nor attending doctor knew if the inoculation was the vaccine or a placebo.