Madagascar

UNICEF has rebuffed reports of a polio outbreak in Madagascar. It said confusion had occurred owing to the detection of vaccine-derived polio virus in three healthy children amid an immunisation campaign in November. Meanwhile, a probe has been launched to find out the reason behind the detection the virus in the three children. The closure of 250 clinics in Madagascar, prompted by the ongoing Presidential crisis, has reduced vaccination rates to less than 40% in the southern region, although the last case of wild polio outbreak in the country was in 1997.

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