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The ministry asks parents of older children to five years and under to be v Accelerate against polio from a campaign that will last until 15 July. Tegy is intended to prevent infection through vaccination until stopping transmission.
Health workers will move door-to-door with health facilities ready to administer the vaccine.
The exercise will be held in Kiambu, Nairobi, Kajiado, Kitui, Machakos, Meru, Isiolo, Tana River, Lamu, Garissa, Wajir and Mandera.
Traces of type 2 polio virus were found in wastewater samples taken at Eastleigh in March 1965
. the virus can cause paralysis in unimmunized people.
Kenya has been free from wild poliovirus since 2014.
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