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Gunmen kill four polio workers, wound three in Afghanistan’s east

Four polio vaccination workers have been killed and three others injured in separate attacks in Afghanistan’s eastern city of Jalalabad, a provincial health department official said, in the latest in a series of attacks against health workers. A wave of assassinations has hit urban centres since peace talks began between the Taliban and the Afghan government last year in Doha, many of them targeting government employees, health workers, media and […]

today15 June 2021

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Attack on Syria vaccine storage facility may leave children at risk: WHO

The World Health Organization said on Friday it had received reports of an attack on medical facilities in eastern Syria that had destroyed a storage room containing more than 130,000 vaccine doses against measles and polio. If confirmed, the WHO said, the attack will put thousands of children at risk of these serious infectious, viral diseases. Both can spread rapidly in areas of conflict. “WHO has made strenuous efforts in […]

today14 October 2017

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