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Over a million children vaccinated against polio in southern Malawi

Africanews · 1 month ago
Africanews
Africanews
1 month ago

The four-day campaign comes following the detection of a new polio case in late January.

Breakdown
  • Health workers vaccinate children in southern Malawi classrooms
  • 1.3 million children targeted after new polio case detected in January 11s
  • Outbreak linked to vaccine-derived type 2 polio virus and unvaccinated child 18s
  • Low immunisation rates allow vaccine-derived polio outbreaks 27s
  • Polio is incurable but preventable through vaccination 41s
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