West Africa: Polio campaign kicks off

The second three-day round of a synchronized campaign to vaccinate 77 million children against polio in 16 West African countries is now underway.

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The wild poliovirus has been reported in eight countries in the region in the past six months: Burkina Faso, Chad, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Senegal and Sierra Leone, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) and UN Children's Fund (UNICEF).

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