Polio

News : Polio

Ugandan districts bordering the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan have been put on high alert after health officials warned of a possible outbreak of Wild Polio Virus. (AllAfrica)

Health authorities will hold from September 26 to 28, a sub-cycle of vaccination against poliomyelitis in some provinces of the country, to curb the spread of the wild poliovirus of the type III. (AllAfrica)

General weak routine immunization coverage resulting from poor health care system exposes Nige-ria as the most polio-endemic country in the world, contribu-ting about 90 percent of the world's total cases of the six chil-killer diseases. (AllAfrica)

World Health Organisation (WHO) said yesterday that Nigeria ranks first among countries with endemic polio cases in the world. (AllAfrica)

Village Head of Suleimanti Ward, Maisandari District of Maiduguri Metropolitan Council (MMC), Borno State, Alhaji Bulama Ali, may be dethroned for allegedly driving his wife away over polio vaccination. (AllAfrica)

At Bama local government area of Borno State,the polio vaccination exercise started quite early and several women were sighted at the primary health care centres voluntarily joining others for the exercise. (AllAfrica)

Millions of parents and guardians sent their children to be vaccinated on 30 and 31 August in a national campaign against measles, polio and other diseases, officials said on Tuesday. (AllAfrica)

The search for an end to the spread of polio virus has been on for years. While an appreciable impact has been made in some of the 36 states of the Federation, there still appears a scary situation in some of the states, prompting relentless campaigns by the various stakeholders. (AllAfrica)

World Health Organisation (WHO) yesterday said that the continued presence of polio in parts of Northern Nigeria was dragging backwards the total eradication of polio in the world. (AllAfrica)

Attempts to immunize children against polio has run into a hitch in Katsina state, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. (AllAfrica)

World Health Organisation (WHO) yesterday raised alarm over the upsurge in the cases of poliomyelitis in Zamfara state. (AllAfrica)

A group, Journalist against Polio(JAP), has raised alarm over the need for the country to intesify its fight against polio, especially with Nigeria still having the highest incidence of polio worldwide. (AllAfrica)

Sokoto State Governor, Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko, has called on the World Health Organisation (WHO) and other international agencies to accord priority to developing countries in their global campaign efforts on aid and donations to fight health-related problems. (AllAfrica)

The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Mohammad Sa'ad Abubakar, and the Jama'atu Nasirl Islam (JNI) have been commended for their role in the eradication of polio in the country. (AllAfrica)

President Umaru Musa yar'adua has been commended for the renewed interest shown towards eradication of polio in the country. (AllAfrica)

Polio and measles inoculations, among other vaccinations, will be offered to children under the age of 12 during immunisation awareness week. (AllAfrica)

Emir of Anka, Alhaji Muhammadu Attahiru Ahmed Anka, has commended President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's renewed interest in the eradication of Polio in the country. (AllAfrica)

About 22,716 children, below the age of five, were immunised against poliomyelitis in Katchiungo district, 64 kilometres from Huambo city, during the broad vaccination campaign, held from July 25 to 27, countrywide. (AllAfrica)

The third national campaign against poliomyelitis that took place on 25-27 July countrywide, resulted in the vaccination, in the south-western Namibe Province, of 67,135 children aged between zero to five, ANGOP got the information from the head of the provincial public health department, Franco Mufinda. (AllAfrica)

Nigeria remains the only polio endemic country in Africa and one of four remaining polio endemic countries globally, the First Lady, Hajiya Turai Yar'Adua, said today. (AllAfrica)

The Director, Primary Healthcare, Sokoto State Ministry of Health, Dr.Aburrazak Gandi has expressed concern over the upsurge in polio cases in Nigeria this year, and called on stakeholders to ensure that they check the transmission of the virus. (AllAfrica)

About 171,000 children under the age of five were vaccinated against poliomyelitis in the coastal Kwanza Sul province, during the immunisation campaign that took place from July 25 to 27. (AllAfrica)

Six Muslim clerics in Suleja, Niger State yesterday disrupted the polio immunisation exercise, demanding for social amenities in their communities. (AllAfrica)

Rotary International yesterday honoured President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua with the Polio Eradication Champion Award for his leadership in support of a polio-free world. (AllAfrica)

President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua has promised to do everything humanly possible to eradicate polio from Nigeria. (AllAfrica)

Round two of a national polio immunisation campaign is scheduled to take place next week Wednesday. (AllAfrica)

Thousands of Nigerian moslems intending to participate in this year's pilgrimage to the Holy Land may miss the opportunity of performing their religious obligations unless they are prepared to be immunised against Polimelythis, the disease which causes paralysis in children. This is because the Saudi authorities have instituted a compulsory vaccination against polio and other infectious diseases as one of the eligibility criteria for all intending pilgrims as a way of minimising the risk of these diseases spreading amongst the millions of Islamic adherents taking part in the religious exercise. (AllAfrica)

About 416 cases of polio have been recorded across the country from January to June 2008, a sharp increase in six months compared to 154 cases in 2007. (AllAfrica)

The Minister of Public Health, Andre Mama Fouda, has reassured the population that the polio vaccine found to have secondary allergy is not found in the country. (AllAfrica)

The country's ongoing rehabilitation works of roads and the end of rain season have enabled the expansion of the second phase of national campaign of vaccination against poliomyelitis, held on 20-22 June, ANGOP has learnt. (AllAfrica)

The Rotary Club of Nigeria over the weekend in Zaria, said it has resolved to partner with the federal and state governments to eradicate the scourge of polio to fulfill the promise the Club made to the world's children in 1985. (AllAfrica)

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