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Nigeria sets up emergency polio immunisation plan
Nigeria sets up emergency polio immunisation plan
File: Nigeria has set up a plan to eradicate the disease after two children were paralysed by polio in the northeast state of Borno.Photo: EPA / ABIR ABDULLAHGENEVA - The Nigerian government has reported two new polio cases in the first re-emergence of the disease since 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday.Two children in the northeast state of Borno had been paralysed by the disease, the Geneva-based group said in a statement.The new cases represent a major setback for Nigeria, which had just celebrated two years without polio last month and was on track to be certified free of the virus in July 2017.
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Nigeria reports first 2 cases of polio in years: WHO
Nigeria reports first 2 cases of polio in years: WHO
The priority is to rapidly boost immunity against polio in the affected areas, Nigeria's health minister says.(Sunday Alamba/Associated Press)Nigeria has reported the first two cases of polio after more than two years, in an area newly liberated from Islamic extremists who attacked polio vaccinators in the past, the government and the World Health Organization say.Nigeria's removal from WHO's list of polio-endemic countries in October had meant the entire African continent was free of the crippling disease.Two children have been paralyzed by polio in northeastern Borno state in two different local government areas that had been cut off by Boko Haram's Islamic extremist uprising, Health Minister Isaac Adewole said in a statement Thursday night.
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