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Home > Nigeria: Kano orders resumption of polio immunisation

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Thursday, July 22, 2004 - 03:00
Categories: 
Health & HIV/AIDS [2]
Issue Number: 
166 [3]
Article-Summary: 

Kano state in northern Nigeria has ended a 10-month boycott of polio immunisations and ordered its health officials to start vaccinating children again. The move, announced on Monday night, had been long awaited by international health experts who have seen the crippling disease ripple around Africa from the Nigerian hot spot.

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Food & Health [4]
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http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/hivaids/23322 [5]
Country: 
Nigeria [6]

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