UN launches key anti-polio push
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A week-long effort to immunise 300 million children in Africa and Asia against polio starts on Friday.
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Ethiopia has launched an emergency  polio immunization campaign, fearing an outbreak of the highly  infectious disease in neighboring Sudan could spread, the  Health Ministry said on Friday.
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Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia will   vaccinate nearly 3 million children against polio in a bid to   stamp out the paralyzing disease, which has re-emerged in the   Horn of Africa, the World Health Organization said on Thursday.
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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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New rules to help the United Nations  contain public health emergencies took effect on Friday,  requiring countries to disclose potential threats from disease,  chemical agents, radioactive materials and contaminated food.
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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 immunisations, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday.
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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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India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, the last three Asian countries where polio is endemic, are on track to halt its spread by year-end after halving cases in 2004, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday.
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The global campaign to eradicate polio kicked off its second phase in west Africa amid unrest in Ivory Coast that could impede efforts to vaccinate 80 million children in sub-Saharan Africa under age five.
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Africa could soon face a major polio outbreak, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). For the first time in five years, Guinea and Mali have reported polio cases.
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JOHANNESBURG -- Health workers across west and central Africa began a 23-country polio immunization campaign yesterday to reach more than 80 million children in the next several days. The undertaking is part of an international effort to eradicate the disease by next year.
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Vaccination could eradicate India's persistent polio problem, health experts say.
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Health ministers from the most seriously affected countries in Africa say they can stop polio's spread by the end of this year by intensifying efforts to immunize children.
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The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) called on Wednesday for a new drive to stamp out polio, saying it was probably now or never for ridding the world of the paralyzing disease that attacks mainly children.
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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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KANO, Nigeria  - Political leaders and health  workers launched a drive Saturday to immunize more than 80  million children against polio in 23 African nations and fight  back against a resurgence of the crippling disease.
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WASHINGTON -- The final push toward global eradication of polio has been full of pitfalls, but those fighting the disease expect to finalize a plan today that they believe should wipe out the virus.