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Polio NYT 11/11/2010
Posted: 2 years ago
The following article was in the NYT yesterday. Atta boy, Rotary.
Congo Republic: Amid Polio Outbreak, Groups Begin Immunization Campaign
By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.Published: November 11, 2010 Enlarge This Image
A Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Ministry of Health employee administers a polio vaccination to a Congolese child.
International aid organizations said Thursday that they were starting a campaign to immunize three million people in three countries to fight a new outbreak of polio. The service organization Rotary International said it would give Unicef and the World Health Organization $500,000 total for the campaign, set to begin Friday in Pointe Noire, a coastal city where about 100 people have died in an outbreak that appears to have an unusually high mortality rate. From there, they will spread out to the rest of the country, neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola, with the goal of vaccinating three million people of all ages by year’s end. Normally, polio drops are given only to small children, but many teenagers and adults in central Africa are unprotected.