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Polio Eradication Efforts in West and Central Africa
June 3 , 2023
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- Three countries - Cameroon, Chad and Niger - has kicked off Africa’s largest polio vaccination campaign since 2020.
- The three West and Central African countries intend to immunise 21 million children under the age of five.
- The vaccination drive started in response to 19 detections of type-2 Polioviruses.
- Two cases in Niger, 10 in Chad, four in the Central African Republic and three in Cameroon were reported recently.
- All polio cases in West and Central Africa are due to circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus.
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