UN calls for mass #polio vaccination in #syria and neighboring countries
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A Syrian refugee woman watches children playing as they wait close to the town of Semalka, in northeast Syria, for permission from the Kurdish Committees for the Protection of the Kurdish People (YPG), who control a crossing into neighboring Iraq, on October 21, 2013. (Photo: AFP - Mauricio Morales)
More than 20 million children are to be vaccinated in Syria and neighboring countries against polio to prevent the spread of the crippling infectious disease following (...)