Effort to Defeat Polio Faces Unique Challenges
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The troubled 19-year-old campaign to eradicate polio is celebrating recent progress and an unexpected infusion of cash, but experts are coming to realize they will not be able to end the expensive and laborious efforts to control the virus anytime soon.
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The west African state of Cameroon launched a campaign to vaccinate four million children against polio, a disease once thought eradicated here but feared again because of outbreaks in neighbouring states.
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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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African health ministers and UN health experts are to discuss means of eradicating polio.
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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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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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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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LONDON -- Nearly 20 years ago, the World Health Organization and its partners launched an ambitious program to eradicate polio by the end of the millennium. That deadline passed and another was missed in 2005 _ and polio still strikes about 2,000 people a year, mostly children.
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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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The troubled 19-year-old campaign to eradicate polio is celebrating recent progress and an unexpected infusion of cash, but experts are coming to realize that they will not be able to end the expensive and laborious efforts to control the virus anytime soon.
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Afghan elders have given safe passage to thousands of volunteer vaccinators immunizing children against polio in Afghanistan's violent south, a region health workers haven't worked in for months, UNICEF said Saturday.
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Political leaders and health workers launched a drive Saturday to immunise 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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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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Polio eradication efforts get back on track in African nation after hostility to treatment reignited disease.
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âThe challenge is to continue to grow in every way. Itâs a tricky game.â
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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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Global health officials say war-torn Sudan is one of three sub-Saharan African countries reporting new cases of polio. The new polio virus is believed to the same strain registered in a major outbreak in northern Nigeria.