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Rotary's PolioPlus

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Rotary International became the first global organization to work for child immunization when it established its PolioPlus program in 1985. Through the program, the group joins global efforts to totally eradicate poliomyelitis by providing vaccines to children in all parts of the world.

Author: Silver, Cary
Publisher: World Health Organization
Publication Name: World Health
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0043-8502
Year: 1995
Services, Children, Poliomyelitis, Vaccination of children, Vaccination, Rotary International, Immunization of children, Immunization, Poliovirus vaccines

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WHO response to epidemics

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The World Health Organization (WHO) organized a task force after an outbreak of Ebola haemorrhagic fever occurred in Zaire in 1995. The first case of the disease was identified in a 35-year-old man, and the epidemic was considered to be under control by late May 1995.

Author: Rodier, Guenael
Publisher: World Health Organization
Publication Name: World Health
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0043-8502
Year: 1997
Care and treatment, Management, Social policy, Demographic aspects, Congo (Kinshasa), World Health Organization, Epidemics, Ebola virus infections, Ebola hemorrhagic fever

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