Cameroon: Polio Eradication - Understanding Why Vaccination Must Continue

Though Cameroon was declared wild poliomyelitis-free on June 18, 2020, surveillance and immunisation efforts must be stepped up because two other polio types are yet to be eliminated.

The good news of Cameroon's recent certification by the World Health Organisation, WHO as a poliomyelitis-free nation risks being drowned by the need to continue vaccinating children aged below five years. This is more so because only the wild polio virus type has been eradicated. With two other types still lurking in dirty water. And from time to time succeed in finding host in bodies of vulnerable children, explains Zenabou Simpore, Polio Coordinator, United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF Cameroon.

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