
Polio resurfaces in Africa
World
August 11, 2016 21:00
geneva - Two children in Nigeria were paralyzed by polio. It is the first time in two years that the virus reappears in Africa, the World Health Organization suggested Thursday.
The children ran the disease in the state of Borno, in the northeast of the country. The WHO and the Nigerian government are strongly committed to vaccination campaigns and monitoring to detect infections with the virus quickly.,, The priority now is to quickly immunize all children in the affected area, so that no children are victims of this terrible disease, '' said Dr. Matshidiso Moeti WHO.
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