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GENEVA, Switzerland, Feb. 20 (UPI) -- The World Health Organization said Friday 10 African countries plan to immunize 63 million children against polio, which has spread in recent months.
A month ago African health ministers met in an emergency session and vowed to end polio transmission in 2004.
The immunization campaign was to begin over the next several days in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon Central African Republic, Ghana, Niger, Nigeria, Ivory Coast and Togo. Chad was to begin its program in March.
WHO said in a statement political, religious and traditional leaders will go house-to-house to administer the vaccine to children.
Polio cases have increased in west and central Africa in the past several months.
"After eight years of incredible collaboration and investment, Africa is standing on the verge of a well-deserved triumph in public health," Dr. Ebrahim Samba, WHO regional director for the African Region, said in a statement.
"But the disease is now threatening to make a comeback, and the whole continent is on the brink of re-infection unless these campaigns stop the further spread of the virus."
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