Burundi: polio vaccinations begin for 1.5 million childrenDoctors in Burundi started vaccinating Monday 1.5 million children against wild polio polio: see poliomyelitis. after the first cases for ten years were confirmed in the north west, a medical source told AFP (1) (AppleTalk Filing Protocol) The file sharing protocol used in an AppleTalk network. In order for non-Apple networks to access data in an AppleShare server, their protocols must translate into the AFP language. See file sharing protocol. . "Burundi launched this morning a three-day vaccination campaign against type-1 wild polio," announced Dr Olivier Kagabo, who is heading the vaccination programme in Burundi. "It is a response to the discovery of two cases of wild polio at the end of September in the northwestern province of Cibitoke, on the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda," he added. In total, 1,515,382 children under five will receive the vaccination, provided by the UN Children's Fund. Dr Kagabo said the virus "was imported from the east of the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo where cases were discovered around two months ago." "The same vaccination programme is organised simultaneously in Sud-Kivu (province in the east of DR Congo) and in the Southern province of Rwanda, to create a block against this very virulent vir·u·lent adj. 1. Extremely infectious, malignant, or poisonous. Used of a disease or toxin. 2. Capable of causing disease by breaking down protective mechanisms of the host. Used of a pathogen. 3. virus" Dr Kagabo said. Polio is transmitted through the consumption of contaminated contaminated, v 1. made radioactive by the addition of small quantities of radioactive material. 2. made contaminated by adding infective or radiographic materials. 3. an infective surface or object. food and water. The virus is highly infectious and can easily overwhelm the immune system immune system Cells, cell products, organs, and structures of the body involved in the detection and destruction of foreign invaders, such as bacteria, viruses, and cancer cells. Immunity is based on the system's ability to launch a defense against such invaders. of those who have not been vaccinated. Polio remains endemic in just four countries in the world, the hotbed hotbed, low, glass-covered frame structure for starting tender plants. It differs from a cold frame only in that the soil is heated—either artificially as by underground electric wiring or steampipes, or naturally with partially fermented stable manure, which being Nigeria, followed by India, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. 
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