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 that they will not be able to end the expensive and laborious efforts to control the virus anytime soon.
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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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The Nigerian president leads new efforts  to stamp out polio as part of a big campaign planned for the region.
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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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India will wipe out polio in the next three years, the country's health minister said on Tuesday, despite a surge in cases this year that has raised concern abroad.
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Health workers began immunising thousands of Afghan children against polio Wednesday, using a push for peace to access areas where unrest has prevented immunisation and led to new cases of the disease.
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Nigeria, which accounts for nearly three  quarters of polio cases worldwide, is determined to halt the  spread of the crippling disease by immunizing all its children,  its health minister declared on Thursday.
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Polio eradication efforts get back on track in African nation after hostility to treatment reignited disease.
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The polio virus remains a threat in Niger, with 18 new cases so far this year, but many parents are deeply suspicious of the UN's drive to immunise children, according to a World Health Organisation report.
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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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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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KANO, Nigeria  - 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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As local officials struggled to account for the dead and missing, another challenge began to loom: heading off disease.
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Polio, which can paralyze small children, has become the latest threat to refugees already struggling with famine and disease in the camps of Darfur.
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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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ABUJA, Nigeria  - The number of new polio cases in Nigeria jumped by 36 percent to 1,111 last year but sustained immunization should help cut incidence of the disease in 2007, a World Health Organization official said on Monday.
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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.