Vaccine Switch Urged for Eradication of Remaining Pockets of Polio
Wednesday, January 16, 2013 - 11:00
in Health & Medicine
By sunrise on a warm December morning, Janila Shulu’s team are out in the dirt roads and alleyways of Ungwan Rimi, a poor neighborhood in a predominantly Muslim section of Kaduna city in northern Nigeria. Three female health workers, accompanied by a community leader, dart from house to house, squeezing a few drops of polio vaccine into the mouths of all the young children they can find, even those who pass by on the street. By 1 p.m., after giving hundreds of doses, they stop for the day -- the first of a national five-day effort. [More]