Nigeria Launches Polio Vaccine Campaign
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Nigeria's president kicked off a mammoth effort to immunize 80 million children against polio in 23 African countries, described by international health experts as "the single-largest public health campaign" in history to wipe out the disease.
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More than 8 million Sudanese children  will be vaccinated against polio, health officials said on  Monday, following the country's first case of the disease in  more than two years.
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Polio has spread to two more African countries where it had been eradicated, Guinea and Mali, highlighting the risk of a major outbreak across west and central Africa, international campaigners said on Tuesday.
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Bangladesh has completed an emergency vaccination drive to immunize two million children against polio in a southeastern region close to Myanmar, officials said on Sunday.
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Namibia&#39;s veterinary authorities will launch a vaccinating campaign from next week against an anthrax outbreak that was confirmed to have spread from neighboring Botswana
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Africa would today launch the largest ever immunisation campaign aimed at reaching 80 million children in 23 countries. In a massive effort to combat the Polio epidemic which risks paralysing children for
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A major polio epidemic in West and Central Africa is inevitable in coming months, but the disease could be eradicated worldwide next year by mass immunizations, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
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Nigeria must step up farm controls to stem the spread of bird flu, the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization said on Tuesday, urging consumers to take precautions against infection.
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Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo administered polio droplets to a child to reassure residents the vaccine was safe as a new effort to eradicate the crippling disease was kicked off.
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Health workers in the northern Nigerian city of Kano said they were buoyed by the positive response to a polio vaccination campaign, and were confident they would be able to protect millions of children from the crippling disease.
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A general strike in Nigeria has made it easier to reach and vaccinate 35 million children in the country against polio, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Tuesday.
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Some 13 million children in northern Nigeria are being vaccinated against polio in a bid to wipe out the disease.
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A week-long polio immunisation initiative in northern Nigeria's Kano state ended with health officials optimistic of 75 percent coverage of the four million children targeted.
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For Ramatu Garba, the polio vaccine is more curse than savior &#151; part of an evil conspiracy hatched in the West to sterilize Nigerian girls.
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Indian health officials said Monday they aim to vaccinate about 95 million children against polio this week as part of a drive to eradicate the disease, which made a comeback last year.
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JOHANNESBURG, Oct. 7 -- Teams were to spread out across 23 countries in sub-Saharan Africa on Friday to begin what global health officials hope is the final push against the crippling polio virus, with the goal of vaccinating 80 million children, including those in northern Nigeria, where opposition had derailed the eradication effort.
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GENEVA -- The number of worldwide polio cases last year rose by almost one-third after a vaccine boycott in Nigeria spawned a resurgence of the disease across Africa, the World Health Organization said yesterday.