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A three-day nationwide anti-polio immunisation campaign began on Sunday in the Central African Republic (CAR), targeting children aged up to five years. The director of preventive medicine in the Ministry of Public Health and Population, Dr Abel Namssenmo, told IRIN on Sunday the campaign follows a polio outbreak in October from the western province of Mambere Kadei, where 27 cases were reported.