国产热热热精品,亚洲视频久久】日韩,三级婷婷在线久久,99人妻精品视频,精品九热人人肉肉在线,AV东京热一区二区,91po在线视频观看,久久激情宗合,青青草黄色手机视频

  Home>News Center>World
         
 

WHO: 83 cases of polio confirmed in Yemen
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-05-18 14:10

The number of confirmed polio cases has reached 83 in Yemen, a country that was believed to have been free of the disease until last month, the U.N. health agency said Tuesday.


Yemeni school girls take part in a ceremony in Sanaa. Health authorities in Yemen have reported 83 cases of polio in the past four weeks, raising fears of a major epidemic in one of the poorest countries on the planet.[AFP]

Hashem al-Zein of the World Health Organization said 411 possible cases were also being examined and told reporters that 67 of the confirmed cases are in the Red Sea port city of Hudaydah. WHO has labeled polio's spread to Yemen "a major epidemic."

Sixty-one percent of Yemeni children are not vaccinated against the disease, and WHO plans to launch a vaccination campaign May 30, al-Zein said.

Yemen is one of 16 previously polio-free countries that have reported new cases since 2003, after a vaccine boycott in Nigeria was blamed for causing an outbreak that spread the disease to other countries.

Hard-line Islamic clerics in northern Nigeria led the immunization boycott, claiming the polio vaccine was part of a U.S.-led plot to render Nigeria's Muslims infertile or infect them with AIDS. Vaccination programs restarted in Nigeria in July 2004 after local officials ended the 11-month boycott.

Polio comes from dirty water and usually infects young children, attacking the nervous system and causing paralysis, muscular atrophy, deformation and sometimes death.



 
  Today's Top News     Top World News
 

Washington raising tensions over China's currency

 

   
 

Fortune for all in new Asian century

 

   
 

US, EU textile limits on China unfair: Bo

 

   
 

New law to protect online copyright

 

   
 

Wu Yi to meet Koizumi in Japan

 

   
 

China 'sincere' about ties with Vatican

 

   
  WHO: 83 cases of polio confirmed in Yemen
   
  S.Korea says nuclear talks would allow compromise
   
  North and South Korea talks break, no progress
   
  Uzbek authorities deny troops killed civilians
   
  Minister: Kidnapped Italian aid worker OK
   
  Australian Iraq hostage to be released soon -media
   
 
  Go to Another Section  
 
 
  Story Tools  
   
  News Talk  
  Are the Republicans exploiting the memory of 9/11?  
Advertisement
         
黎平县| 龙陵县| 舟曲县| 聂拉木县| 海淀区| 永寿县| 惠来县| 郎溪县| 曲沃县| 庆阳市| 临潭县| 青岛市| 孟连| 株洲市| 新绛县| 海晏县| 桃源县| 五寨县| 合江县| 花莲市| 鱼台县| 军事| 汨罗市| 山东| 延津县| 昭通市| 额尔古纳市| 三河市| 洛宁县| 宾川县| 喀喇沁旗| 神木县| 塘沽区| 潜山县| 全州县| 阿图什市| 桐乡市| 蕲春县| 加查县| 突泉县| 通化县|