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WHO considers rapid response to halt polio spread in Africa.
2004 FEB 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- With polio continuing to spread in Africa, the World Health Organization (WHO) is preparing to shore up its effort to wipe out the devastating disease worldwide, an official said January 14, 2004.
"We will have to do rapid response campaigns in these countries so they don't continue to have cases," said Melissa Corkum, spokeswoman for WHO.
A child in both Benin and Cameroon, where experts believed polio had been eradicated, were reportedly infected with polio recently, said Corkum.
The disease appears to have spread from neighboring Nigeria, where it is still endemic. Five other countries in the region also have reported polio has spread to them in recent months.
WHO hopes urgent immunization programs in Benin and Cameroon will prevent the spread of the disease there, Corkum said.
Ministers of health from the six countries worst affected by polio are holding an emergency meeting in Geneva to intensify immunization campaigns with the aim of stopping poliovirus ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, WHO considers rapid response to halt polio spread in Africa.