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PRO/EDR> Poliomyelitis update (12): Nigeria (BO) comment, WHO

Polio -- NigeriaThe counterattack against resurgent polio in Africa will be rapid, logistically difficult and potentially dangerous, involving millions of doses of vaccine, thousands of vaccinators and the health ministries and militaries of 5 countries, experts from the World Health Organization and other groups say.Stopping the disease in Africa is crucial to the high-stakes effort to eradicate it from the world, a campaign that has been pressed for almost 30 years and has consumed billions of Read more [...]