WHO: over 85M African kids get polio vaccination (AP)

Posted under Health on Saturday, March 6th, 2010 at 9:23 pm | Comments are off for this article

A child is given an oral polio vaccine in Angola camp, southern Khartoum in 2007. A campaign to immunize over 85 million children under five against polio will kick off March 6 in west and central Africa in a bid to halt a year-long epidemic, health bodies said in a joint communique.(AFP/File/Isam al-Haj)AP – The World Health Organization says more than 85 million children under 5 in west and central Africa will be vaccinated against polio.


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