By: Roxel
02 October 2010
Angola starts its bid to immunize children below five years old in accordance with the nation’s campaign to eradicate polio.
The mass vaccination is a part of the countries series of programs to stop polio epidemic that accounts for the 24 children who are paralyzed in this year alone.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO) the failure with the previous programs is because of that only few children were vaccinated.
In this year’s program, there are 7 million vaccines available.
In Angola, polio outbreak began in 2007 and was now believed by the WHO as the greatest polio eradication efforts in Africa.
In addition, polio is an acute viral infectious disease that is spread though fecal and oral route. This kind of disease mainly affects children.
Furthermore, this ailment infests the intestine and crawl to the nervous system.
Though vaccines are highly potent in defending children against the infection and serious campaigns to eradicate this problem, the outbreak has now reached the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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(Note from the SaneVax Team: Until these people have access to clean water sources and waste disposal systems, polio will probably win the fight. Polio is transmitted via soil and water contaminated with feces. Would it not make more sense to spend some time and money to assure sanitary living conditions to promote health first, and then consider vaccination to handle what is left of the problem?)
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