Polio

Immunization campaign launched as Nigeria outbreak spreads across West Africa

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, November 18th, 2003

A new polio outbreak spreading from Nigeria to neighboring countries is putting 15 million children at risk, requiring a massive immunization campaign across five countries in west and central Africa.

Hundreds of thousands of volunteers and health workers in Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Niger and Togo aimed to reach every child in those countries with polio vaccine in 3 days.

The campaign, organized at a cost of more than US$10 million, comes in response to nearly a dozen children being paralyzed in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Niger and Togo, from poliovirus genetically traced to northern Nigeria. A further case was recently reported in Chad. The...

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Source: TB and Outbreaks Week (2003-11-18)

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