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Malawi Secures 6.8 Million Doses Of Oral Polio Vaccine
On Sunday, March 20, Malawi will launch a nationwide campaign to vaccinate kids against Polio after a case was recorded in February, the first in the country since 1992. The Southwestern African country secured 6.8 million doses of the oral polio vaccine intended to be administered to children under the age of five across all…
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Endemic: Wild Polio Resurfaces In Malawi After Five Years
Malawi has recorded an outbreak of the Wild Poliovirus in the country’s capital Lilongwe after a three-year-old girl was reported to have developed the virus investigated to be similar to a strain circulating in Pakistan. The highly infectious wild poliovirus, a major cause of total paralysis in children was last detected in Nigeria’s Borno State…