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A federal government campaign to vaccinate more than 40 million children under five against polio in Pakistan has been suspended following a series of attacks on workers and police over the past week. [...] Vaccinators and police teams have previously been targeted in the country, where rumours have persisted about immunisation programmes being harmful or a cover for foreign interests.
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Vaccinators and police teams have previously been targeted in the country, where rumours have persisted about immunisation programmes being harmful or a cover for foreign interests.
More [1,008] people have died from Ebola in eastern Congo since August May 2018, the country's health minister said Friday as hostility toward health workers continues to hamper efforts to contain the second-deadliest outbreak of the virus.
[Rebel violence] also has prevented vaccination teams from getting to some areas, further limiting the health response. Still, more than 109,000 people have received an [one? which one?] experimental but effective Ebola vaccine. Ryan said authorities are looking at introducing another one [?].
At press time, over 800 people had been infected, resulting in at least 546 deaths, and about 80,000 people had been vaccinated. [...] a massacre in December 2018 in which at least 890 people were killed in four villages in Yumbi territory, Mai-Ndombe province, in the west of the country, apparently in clashes between the Banunu and Batende communities. On 13 February, the DRC army announced it had arrested 15 people for alleged complicity in the killings.
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