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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.

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.

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.

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.

Following the outbreak of about twenty cases of polio across Kaduna State, the state governor, Arc. Mohammed Namadi Sambo, yesterday at the Kaduna International Trade Fair Complex, launched a special campaign against the menace which the governor said was gradually ravaging the state. In attendance in the said meeting were all religious and traditional leaders as well as other stakeholders.

Public Health Minster has rejected allegations that the polio vaccine used in Cameroon is harmful.

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the governments of Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali are launching a cross-border polio vaccination campaign today following an April 2008 report of a polio case at Tillabéry in southwest Niger, 100km from the borders of Mali and Burkina Faso.

The Japanese government Friday here donated USD 4.3 million to the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF), to support the combat to malaria and poliomyelitis in Angola.

Zimbabwe has managed to eradicate the wild polio virus with no cases recorded in the past 20 years, according to the World Health Organisation.

Health authorities in Cameroon will on May 30 launch an intensive vaccination campaign against poliomyelitis (polio). The onslaught that will go from May 30 to June 1 is aimed at vaccinating children between 0 to 5 years.

At least 24,632 is the temporary number of children that have been vaccinated against polio throughout northern Cabinda province, Angop learnt from a source on Wednesday.

At least 172,365 children from zero to five years old have been vaccinated against polio in Maianga district, during the first phase of national vaccination campaigns for 2008, held on May 16, 17 and 18, throughout the country.

An polio disease has been recorded in Bauchi State with Katagum local government having the highest number of victims.

The provincial director for health in Angola's southern Cunene province, Eduardo Haiumba David, advocated on Friday, in Namacunde district, the need for all citizens to be engaged in poliomyelitis eradication in Angola.

The official launching of national vaccination campaign against polio that expects to immunize over six million children, was carried out on Friday at Samba district in Luanda by the deputy minister of Health, José Dias Van-Dúnem.

The much expected polio vaccination exercise due to commence in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has been suspended indefinitely due to lack of vaccines, LEADERSIHIP can authoritatively reveal.

About 91,043 children from zero to five years of age shall be immunised from May 16 to 18 against children paralysis, during the first phase of the national campaign against poliomyelitis in southern Cunene province.

At least 228,211 children from zero to five years old will be immunised against polio in eastern Moxico province during the first phase of national vaccination campaigns scheduled for May 16-18.

About 5.8 million children from zero to five years old are to be vaccinated against poliomyelitis, in a campaign that will take place in the country from 16 to 18 May.

WESTERN Uganda is still free from polio, two weeks after the disease broke out in the Congolese district of Rutschuru near Uganda's border, Dr. Sam Zaramba, the director general of health services has said.