Topic: Polio
AFP Global Edition | 2009-12-14 16:10:25
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. "Several polio-free countries have suffered setback in polio eradication," WHO Africa regional director Luis Gomes Sambo told the 150 delegates. "The number of countries with polio outbreaks following wild poliovirus importations ...
AP News | 2009-10-11 11:57:22
Afghan President Hamid Karzai, center, holds a child, as Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada, right, gives vaccination to a child while Afghan Health Minister Mohammad Amin Fatemi watches during the inauguration of a polio immunization campaign at Presidential Palace in ...
Zumapress | 2009-09-24 06:32:11
European Pressphoto Agency | 2009-09-07 05:04:05
epa01851080 A Pakistani health worker gives Polio vaccination to a child in the Pakistani town of Chaman near the border with Afghanistan on 07 September 2009. Millions of children below five years of age are given polio drops in different ...
