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Burkina / Ouargaye: A case of Poliovirus detected (Minister of Health)
Through Lassan? Sawadogo -February 11, 20200
A case of poliovirus was detected in the Ouargaye health district in the Koulp?logo in central-eastern Burkina Faso. This is the announcement made by the Minister of Health, Claudine Lougu?, to the press, this February 11, 2020 on the sidelines of the clarification meeting on the Chinese on Burkinabe soil suspected of being damaged by the coronavirus .
"This poliovirus appeared in Burkina because of the presence of said virus in neighboring countries" said Claudine Lougu?. "It occurs while Burkina Faso was on the verge of declaring the end of polio throughout the national territory," said the first health official in Burkina Faso. However, she clarified that "this first case of flaccid paralysis recorded in a child in Ouargaye due to the poliovirus, immediately enabled the Ministry of Health to activate the means of response", to counteract the harm.
According to the first responsible for the department in charge of Health, from the single case, the ministry declared an epidemic and proceeded to the vaccination of the whole district of Ouargaye. Subsequently, the neighboring district will also be subjected to a vaccination campaign, ”she promised. "These measures will help stem the evolution of the epidemic and contain the disease," she said.
Through Lassan? Sawadogo -February 11, 20200
A case of poliovirus was detected in the Ouargaye health district in the Koulp?logo in central-eastern Burkina Faso. This is the announcement made by the Minister of Health, Claudine Lougu?, to the press, this February 11, 2020 on the sidelines of the clarification meeting on the Chinese on Burkinabe soil suspected of being damaged by the coronavirus .
"This poliovirus appeared in Burkina because of the presence of said virus in neighboring countries" said Claudine Lougu?. "It occurs while Burkina Faso was on the verge of declaring the end of polio throughout the national territory," said the first health official in Burkina Faso. However, she clarified that "this first case of flaccid paralysis recorded in a child in Ouargaye due to the poliovirus, immediately enabled the Ministry of Health to activate the means of response", to counteract the harm.
According to the first responsible for the department in charge of Health, from the single case, the ministry declared an epidemic and proceeded to the vaccination of the whole district of Ouargaye. Subsequently, the neighboring district will also be subjected to a vaccination campaign, ”she promised. "These measures will help stem the evolution of the epidemic and contain the disease," she said.
