nigeria: WHO Intensifies Fight Against Polio

The World Health Organisation (WHO), has announced a major change of strategy in its campaign to eradicate polio in Nigeria and two other countries. The strategy adopted so far by WHO has been built on routine vaccinations in countries whose health systems can afford it, and mass immunisation campaigns in the developing world. But the spokesman for WHO, Brent Burkholder, said that it was now time for a shift of emphasis. "The shift is just basically that we're focusing now on the endemic countries and the high-risk countries that are remaining," he said.