Polio

WHO launches new vaccination drive along Burkina Faso-Niger border

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, September 8th, 2002

The United Nations health agency has started a polio immunization drive targeting hundreds of thousands of children in Niger and Burkina Faso after a youngster was reported to have contracted the debilitating disease in the area, a UN spokesman has reported.

The World Health Organization (WHO) decided to organize its "mop up" campaign after a family from Niger brought a sick child to the nearest clinic, which happened to be in Burkina Faso.

"As a result of this case, and as part of the standard procedure for the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, the mop-up campaign was planned, targeting 294,000 children in Niger and 218,000 in Burkina Faso,"...

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