Médecins Sans Frontières has begun a campaign to vaccinate 500,000 people in Nigeria against meningitis, part of a major campaign to fight an outbreak of the dangerous infectious disease in Nigeria, Niger and Chad that has killed hundreds of people since 2008.
Posted by Ellen Wallace on 30 April 2009 at 8:08 |
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News story, GenevaLunch, 30 April 2009.
Filed under: World news
Tags: Chad, Medecins Sans Frontieres, meningitis, Niger, Nigeria
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