Fresh round of anti-polio vaccination across Kenya targeting 2.6m children
Three year old Sureif Yusuf receives polio vaccine at Kambi Odha in Isiolo county, Kenya on January 18 2017. The country has launched a polio vaccination campaign. FILE PHOTO | NATION
Kenya this week kicked off a five-day national polio vaccination campaign in areas with greatest risk of transmission as the United Nations warned that outbreaks in some countries in the Horn of Africa threaten Africa’s and global efforts to eradicate the disease.
According to the WHO, since late 2017, Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia have experienced outbreaks of polio.
