Major polio vaccination blitz launched in Africa
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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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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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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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Experts push for cervical cancer vaccines to be made available to the developing world.
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Polio has reappeared in Guinea and Mali five years after the crippling disease was eradicated in the two West African countries and health experts said on Tuesday there was still a very real threat of a major epidemic spreading across the African continent
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African health ministers and UN health experts are to discuss means of eradicating polio.
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Africa needs to coordinate vaccination campaigns for its children on a regional level, Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade told a conference on immunisation and child health.
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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 immunizations,  the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
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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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Nigeria has launched fresh efforts to stamp out polio as part of a campaign that aims to immunise more than 80 million children in 23 African states.
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GENEVA -- The UN health agency yesterday sought to ease fears of a major polio outbreak in Saudi Arabia fueled by Islamic pilgrims from African nations that are still in the grip of the disease.
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For the first time ever it seems that a new malaria vaccine can protect children from infection and death from malaria, say scientists who are conducting a large scale malaria vaccine trial in Mozambique.
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Polio has re-emerged in Guinea and Mali, countries that had previously freed themselves of the disease. The finding raises fears that a major polio epidemic could hit west and central Africa.
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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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Bangladesh has completed an emergency  vaccination drive to immunize two million children against  polio in a southeastern region close to Myanmar, officials said  on Sunday.
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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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Nigeria's president kicked off a mammoth effort to immunize 80 million children against polio in 23 African countries, described by international health experts as "the single-largest public health campaign" in history to wipe out the disease.