Topic: Polio
AP News | 2010-03-14 15:33:30
Afghan President Hamid Karzai drops polio vaccines to an Afghan boy during a polio vaccination campaign at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, March 14, 2010. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
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Reuters US Online Report Health News | 2010-03-05 16:35:44
GENEVA (Reuters) - Nigeria, seen as the key to wiping out polio in Africa, has made impressive gains against the disease in the year since religious leaders backed vaccination, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. A mass immunization campaign targeting 85 million children in west and central Africa will be launched this weekend to halt the virus which spread ...
AFP Global Edition | 2010-03-04 14:10:22
A campaign to immunize over 85 million children under five against polio will kick off Saturday in west and central Africa in a bid to halt a year-long epidemic, health bodies said in a joint communique. According to a statement issued Thursday by the Joint Global Polio Eradication Initiative and International Federation of the Red Cross, nine countries in the ...
AFP Global Edition | 2009-12-14 16:10:25
<div><p>Polio has re-emerged in several African countries where it had been eradicated, the World Health Organisation said Monday at the start of a conference on child immunisation in Zimbabwe.</p><p>"Several polio-free countries have suffered setback in polio eradication," WHO Africa regional director Luis Gomes Sambo told the 150 ...
