Poliomyelitis

Health officials say Botswana polio campaign was wake-up call to the world

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, July 6th, 2004

The discovery of Botswana's first polio case in 13 years is a wake-up call to other African countries believed to be free of the crippling disease, U.N. officials warned amid a massive door-to-door immunization campaign.

Botswana is the ninth previously polio-free country on the continent to become re-infected following an outbreak in West and Central Africa.

A young boy from the northern town of Maun was reported infected on February 8 with a strain of the disease traced to Nigeria, some 2,500 kilometers (1,550 miles) north of this impoverished southern African nation.

Nigeria's northern state of Kano has been the global...

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