Monrovia — In an effort to counter typhoid, a disease said to be endemic in Liberia with more than 7,400 cases annually, the government has introduced a vaccine for the first time this month in its regular child inoculations, according to Adolphus Clarke, the country's Program Manager for National Immunization at the Ministry of Health.
"Typhoid has become a disease of concern. If you go to a hospital you are either diagnosed with typhoid or malaria," says Clarke, adding that this new vaccination campaign is targeting more than one million children between nine months and 14 years old.
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