Huge Nigerian drive against polio
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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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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 &#151; and polio still strikes about 2,000 people a year, mostly children.
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Health workers have begun a drive across Bangladesh to immunise 24 million children under five against polio to combat the crippling virus that has staged a comeback in the South Asian nation.
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For Ramatu Garba, the polio vaccine is more curse than savior &#151; part of an evil conspiracy hatched in the West to sterilize Nigerian girls.
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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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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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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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Sudanese children are to be vaccinated against polio as part of a campaign kicking off on Tuesday, after the first case in two years was discovered last month, the UN children's fund said.
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GENEVA -- The number of worldwide polio cases last year rose by almost one-third after a vaccine boycott in Nigeria spawned a resurgence of the disease across Africa, the World Health Organization said yesterday.
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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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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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Polio has spread to two more African  countries where it had been eradicated, Guinea and Mali,  highlighting the risk of a major outbreak across west and  central Africa, international campaigners said on Tuesday.
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Health workers in the northern Nigerian city of Kano said they were buoyed by the positive response to a polio vaccination campaign, and were confident they would be able to protect millions of children from the crippling disease.
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The polio eradication campaign has made remarkable strides in Nigeria. But a recent outbreak  -  caused by the vaccine itself  -  threatens to derail it
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Indian health officials said Monday they aim to vaccinate about 95 million children against polio this week as part of a drive to eradicate the disease, which made a comeback last year.
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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.
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JOHANNESBURG -- The global effort to eradicate polio will not meet its deadline to stop transmission of the virus by the end of the year, a World Health Organization official acknowledged yesterday, citing the spread of cases from northern Nigeria.