Kano intensifies polio immunisation drive
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Health workers in northern Nigeria's Kano state began a four-day house-to-house oral polio immunisation exercise of four million children less than five.
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GENEVA - Polio vaccinators set out on camels, boats and on foot Friday to immunize 80 million children under age five in 23 African countries.
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JOHANNESBURG -- The global effort to eradicate polio will not meet its deadline to stop transmission of the virus by the end of the year, a World Health Organization official acknowledged yesterday, citing the spread of cases from northern Nigeria.
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The World Health Organisation said it will redouble efforts to vaccinate Sudanese children against polio following an outbreak of the disease in the war-torn western region of Darfur.
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Angola began the second phase of a public health drive to vaccinate five million children aged under five against polio, a joint statement by the World Health Organisation and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said.
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Prospects for a malaria vaccine have been boosted by âtantalisingâ results from a trial in 2000 children in Mozambique. Although the vaccine reduced the risk of infection by only 30% compared with a control
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Health ministers from Africa, where a  Nigerian-centered polio epidemic is raging, vowed on Thursday  to halt the spread of the crippling disease this year.
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Bangladeshi health officials plan to immunise 24 million children under five against polio in a mammoth nationwide operation Saturday after fresh outbreaks, an official said.
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At least 700,000 health workers fanned out across Bangladesh on Saturday to immunise 24 million children against polio in a bid to tackle a surprise resurgence by the disease, an official said.
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Hundreds of thousands of health workers and volunteers fanned out across Bangladesh on Sunday in an effort to immunize 24 million children against polio after the disease recently resurfaced.
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A review into contaminated polio vaccine has been ordered by Australia&#39;s Federal Health Minister Tony Abbott, after an investigation showed at least two batches were released for use after testing positive for contamination, according to a report in The
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The biggest polio eradication campaign ever launched in Africa kicked off simultaneously in 23 Sub-Saharan countries Friday, with the goal of immunizing 80 million children under five over the next four days, organizers said.
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Uganda will next month launch a nationwide drive to vaccinate nearly three million children against polio in a bid to prevent a feared outbreak in Sudan from spreading, the health ministry said.
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GENEVA Aug. 24, 2004 - Polio has spread to new countries in Africa, further setting back global attempts to wipe out the disease, UN officials said Tuesday.
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Nairobi - About 80 million children in 23 countries will start receiving vaccinations on Friday in the largest polio immunisation campaign ever in Africa, the World Health Organisation said.
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More than 3,000 people who volunteered to receive an experimental Merck and Co. AIDS vaccine are being told to come back and get extra tests because the jab may itself raise the risk of infection.
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A polio epidemic spreading from Nigeria  throughout West and Central Africa has begun to come under  control, but more funds are needed to wipe out the disease in  2005, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.