Officials announce polio outbreak in Philippines, nearly two decades after the country was declared free of the disease
Red Cross and UNICEF medics administer polio and measles vaccinations to children at an evacuation centre for typhoon survivors, Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2013, more than two weeks after Typhoon Haiyan ravaged the city of Tacloban, Leyte province in central Philippines.
The World Health Organization and the United Nations Children's Fund expressed deep concern over polio's reemergence in the country and said they would support the government in immunising children, who are the most susceptible and strengthening surveillance. They said the last known case from a wild strain of the virus in the Philippines was in 1993. Wild poliovirus type 2 was declared globally eradicated in 2015.Duque said his department will launch a mass vaccination campaign next month for children under age 5, starting in the Manila metropolis, Lanao del Sur and Davao, where the virus was detected.
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