23-nation inoculation push in Africa aims to eradicate polio
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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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Egypt is the first country to undertake a nationwide campaign to eliminate "elephantiasis," a disease named for inflaming the arms and legs so the folds of flesh resemble those of an elephant. This year it is distributing the final dosages of medication in a five-year program to halt its transmission.
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A mass inoculation drive for 115,000 children in tsunami relief camps in southern India is underway to avoid an outbreak of measles, the United Nation's Children Fund said.
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Vaccination could eradicate India's persistent polio problem, health experts say.
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Africa could be on the verge of a major polio outbreak, the World Health Organization warns.
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Health workers met scattered refusals from parents Monday as medical teams deployed door-to-door in this largely Muslim Nigerian state, rushing to inoculate 3.8 children against polio after Muslim leaders lifted their boycott of the vaccine.
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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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The spread of polio to Guinea and Mali brings to 12 the number of previously polio-free African countries that have experienced an outbreak.
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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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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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New vaccines have sharply reduced the  number of children paralyzed by polio and raised hopes that a  $5 billion campaign to wipe it out may be close to success, a  top public health official said in an interview.
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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.
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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 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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Nigeria&#39;s president has kicked off a massive effort to immunize 80 million children against polio in 23 African nations. President Olusegun Obsanajo led officials from across the region Saturday in giving
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Pakistan and Afghanistan are to set up five checkposts on their common border to screen children for polio and give them vaccine drops in the hope of eliminating one of the world's last reservoirs of the disease.
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Africa needs to nearly triple the number of its health workers if it is to reverse plummeting life expectancies and combat pandemics of disease.