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WEST AFRICA: Hopes for "re-eradicating" polio

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Health specialists are increasingly optimistic that growing acceptance of the polio vaccine in northern Nigeria offers hope that an upcoming...

CHAD: New polio cases threaten country, region and beyond

http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=81644

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

N'DJAMENA Tuesday, November 25, 2008 (IRIN) - The Chadian Health Ministry and the UN have launched a polio vaccination drive targeting half a million...

Somalia is again polio-free

WHO

Monday, March 31, 2008

10 000 health workers stop polio virus through immunization Somalia is again polio-free, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) announced...

The Gambia Certified Polio-Free

The Point

Friday, December 28, 2007

The Department of State for Health and Social Welfare (DOSH) on Monday issued a press release informing the general public that the Gambia has been...

NIGERIA: Polio vaccine back in the headlines

IRIN

Thursday, October 04, 2007

A report in an American medical journal that children in northern Nigeria have been infected with polio by the vaccine designed to prevent it have...

CONGO: Polio vaccinations for 400,000 children

IRIN

Thursday, July 05, 2007

The health ministry in the Republic of Congo has successfully vaccinated 400,000 children under the age of five against polio, officials said. ...