West Africa: WHO Warns of New Polio Outbreak in W/Africa

4 February 2005

Abuja — World Health Organisation (WHO) has said polio eradication programme needs more regional synchronised campaigns to check the increasing rate of the disease in West Africa.

Seventeen new cases of polio were confirmed in Ivory Coast since last year, as the country's immunisation programmes were disrupted because of civil war.

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