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    Metro UNICEF Explains Why Nigeria Is The Only African Country With Polio Burden – Sahara Reporters

    The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has identified religious beliefs and ignorance as factors responsible for Nigeria’s status as Africa’s only country with polio burden. This was disclosed during an engagement with media practitioners in Yola, organised by UNICEF and the Adamawa State...
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    Metro Why We Now Accept Polio Immunisation For Our Children – Kebbi Community – Leadership Newspaper

    Poliomyelitis, otherwise known as polio, is an acute infection by the poliovirus, especially of the motor neurons in the spinal cord and brainstem, leading to muscle weakness, paralysis and sometimes deformity. YAHYA SARKI writes on reasons members of Kebbi community, who rejected the...
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