Nigeria, Sudan Vow to Halt Polio Spread in Africa
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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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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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TORKHAM, Pakistan-Afghan Border  - Shrugging off the danger of militant violence, Pakistan and Afghanistan on Tuesday launched a drive to eradicate polio from the rugged tribal lands on both sides of their border.
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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 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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Some parents in the west African state of Benin are refusing to allow their children to be vaccinated against poliomyelitis, the country's health minister reported.
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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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Niger has opened a national campaign to eradicate measles, a deadly illness that kills at least 500 children a year in the vast northwest African desert state, the health ministry 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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A week-long polio immunisation initiative in northern Nigeria's Kano state ended with health officials optimistic of 75 percent coverage of the four million children targeted.
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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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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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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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Cases of polio have been found in Mali and Guinea, bringing to 12 the number of African countries recently reinfected by an ongoing polio epidemic in Nigeria.
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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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Nairobi - About 80 million children in 23 countries will start receiving vaccinations on Friday in the largest polio immunisation campaign ever in Africa, the World Health Organisation said.
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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.