Ukraine launches delayed polio vaccination drive | GlobalPost
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The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) reports that Ukrainian children have not been vaccinated against polio since 2008 — a failure that could lead to outbreaks outside the EU-bordering former Soviet state.
Ukraine’s health ministry said on Tuesday that the nationwide vaccination campaign had finally begun.
“Today, we began vaccinating children throughout Ukraine,” health ministry spokeswoman Valentyna Misyats told AFP.
Les premiers cas de polio en Ukraine occidentale à l’été 2015, c’est évidemment la faute à la crise du Donbass…
Ukraine has been short of cash and its politics riven by conflicts due to the financial and humanitarian costs of the 18-month-old pro-Russian separatist uprising in the east of the country.
… et pas du tout à l’arrêt des campagnes de vaccination en 2008.