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PRO/EDR> Poliomyelitis update (15): Syria (RA) new case, Pakistan, violence
Polio -- SyriaThe discovery of another Syrian child paralyzed by polio vaccine viruses in rebel-held Raqqa has the World Health Organization and UNICEF in talks with the Syrian government over whether an emergency vaccination effort can be mounted there.The new case is the 2nd to be documented in Raqqa, part of a larger polio outbreak in Syria that totals 24 cases of paralysis caused by vaccine viruses. The other cases are in Mayadeen district in the Deir-Ez-Zor governorate of eastern Syria.The new Read more [...]
