With two WHO-confirmed cases of polio in Ukraine in September, vaccinating the country’s 1.8 million children needs to start as soon as possibleNext week a nationwide polio vaccination campaign should start in Ukraine. I say should because we’ve been here before. The campaign should have actually started weeks ago.Ukraine’s ministry of health and the World Health Organisation (WHO) confirmed two cases of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus on 1st September. Both children, aged 10 months and 4 years, were not vaccinated against the disease. They live in Zakarpatska province in south-west Ukraine, close to the country’s borders with Romania, Hungary, Poland, and …read more
Source: The Guardian
