Somalia: 2014 Polio cases

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Source: http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/n...ported-somalia


Xinhua News Agency June 5, 2014 5:49pm
New polio case reported in Somalia

UNITED NATIONS, June 5 (Xinhua) -- The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported that the first case of polio in Somalia this year was confirmed Wednesday in the country's Mudug region, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters here Thursday.

"A polio response team from Nairobi is expected to arrive to assess the situation," Dujarric said at a daily news briefing here...

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Re: Somalia: 2014 Polio cases

Source: http://www.garoweonline.com/artman2/...in-Mudug.shtml


One dead after first polio case in Mudug
15 Jul 15, 2014 - 10:42:56 AM

GALKAYO, Somalia July 15, 2013 (Garowe Online)-New polio outbreak claimed at killed one person in Mudug region of central Somalia according to Puntland Health Ministry, Garowe Online reports.

Speaking on Puntland-based independent station, Radio Garowe during Tuesday interview, the Director of Puntland's Ministry of Health Dr. Abdirisak Hirsi Hassan said, elderly man succumbed to the virus in Towfiiq village which lies south of the provincial capital of Mudug, Galkayo.

Dr. Hassan added ?two persons in Towfiq also developed paralysis as a result of new polio outbreak in Puntland's southern border with south-central regions'...