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Pakistan, Nigeria to tighten security for polio workers

(CIDRAP News) – Health officials in Pakistan and Nigeria recently announced that they would step up security to protect polio vaccination workers in the wake of recent fatal attacks by terrorists in both countries.

Lisa Schnirring
 

NEWS SCAN: Canadian E coli outbreak over, militants kill Nigerian polio workers

Feb 8, 2013

 

NEWS SCAN: H1N1 vaccine and pregnancy, Campylobacter in chicken, fungal meningitis, measles & rubella in Europe, polio in Pakistan, infectious imports

Feb 4, 2013

 

NEWS SCAN: Reduced-dose polio vaccine, pertussis vaccine 'cocooning' strategy

 

NEWS SCAN: H5N1 deaths in Cambodia, FAO avian flu warning, finding flu vaccine, severe respiratory infection in kids, polio team attack

Jan 29, 2013

 

NEWS SCAN: H5N1 in Nepal, call for BioWatch contractors, undervaccinated tots, thimerosal exemption, poliovirus in Egypt, dengue in Brazil

Jan 22, 2013

 

NEWS SCAN: E coli in Canada, Campylobacter in plant workers, inactivated polio vaccine, polio attack arrests

 

NEWS SCAN: FDA food safety costs, persistent Lyme arthritis, deans condemn CIA vaccine ploy, vaccine reminders

Jan 8, 2013

 

NEWS SCAN: Hantavirus in UK, pig-farm MRSA, norovirus variant, Kansas biolab progress, Pakistan polio security

 

WHO says polio drive must push on despite Pakistan setbacks

(CIDRAP News) – In the wake of recent killings of polio vaccinators in Pakistan, some questions are being raised about the all-out push to eradicate polio, but the World Health Organization (WHO) says the world can't afford to back off on the eradication drive now.

Robert Roos
 

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