Nigeria launches polio vaccination bid
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Nigeria&#39;s president has kicked off a mammoth effort to immunise 80 million children against polio in 23 sub-Saharan African countries, described by international health experts as &quot;the single-largest public health campaign&quot; in history to wipe out the
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Bangladeshi health officials plan to immunise 24 million children under five against polio in a mammoth nationwide operation Saturday after fresh outbreaks, an official said.
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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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Florida Health Secretary John Agwunobi says the vaccine for children will go to counties with the most unmet needs first. It&#39;s expected to arrive in local health departments the first part of next week.
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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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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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The global campaign to eradicate polio kicked off its second phase in west Africa amid unrest in Ivory Coast that could impede efforts to vaccinate 80 million children in sub-Saharan Africa under age five.
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KANO, Nigeria  - 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 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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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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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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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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The World Health Organisation said it will redouble efforts to vaccinate Sudanese children against polio following an outbreak of the disease in the war-torn western region of Darfur.
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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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More than 700,000 health workers fanned out across Bangladesh on Saturday to immunise 24 million children against polio after the disease made a surprise comeback last year, an official said.
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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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Africa's first amputee football cup is kicking off in Sierra Leone on Friday when the hosts meet Nigeria.