Liberia Kicks Off Mass Vaccination Campaign

The Liberian Ministry of Health, supported by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, the United Nations Children’s Fund and the World Health Organization, has kicked off a weeklong campaign to vaccinate hundreds of thousands of children against measles and polio. A mass immunization campaign scheduled for last year was suspended due to the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus. The campaign aims to vaccinate more than 683,000 children against polio and 603,000 against measles. The children...

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