Topic: Polio
AFP Global Edition | 2009-05-20 19:00:33
<div><p>Kenya, which eradicated polio 25 years ago, has recorded 13 new cases of the virus in three months, health officials said Wednesday.</p><p>Public health director Shahnaaz Sharif said the new cases were reported in northern Turkana district which borders Ethiopia and war-torn Somalia.</p><p ...
ZUMA Press Inc | 2009-04-16 22:03:42
Jul 30, 2005 - Cubal, Angola - A mother brings her young son to be vaccinated by volunteers who are conducting a door to door polio eradication campaign using oral vaccinations
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AP News | 2009-03-27 21:15:30
A health official gives drops of oral polio vaccination to a child at the Mission of Mercy school in the Cite Soleil slum, in Port-au-Prince, Thursday, March 26, 2009. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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AP Features | 2009-03-23 00:09:14
<div><p>In 2003, imams in northern Nigeria fomented a boycott of polio vaccinations claiming they were a Western plot to make Muslims infertile or infect them with AIDS. The result: the number of newly crippled children rose by more than double the following year, and there were fears that the disease would spread into a ...
