Health Scare

July 2006 | Ratings Update

The government prides itself on the level of healthcare it provides but has been caught off-guard by a serious outbreak of polio that has so far killed 7 people and infected a further 27. The virus is most likely to have entered Namibia from Angola, and has been found to be of a strain common in India, one of the handful of countries that has never managed to stamp-out polio. With the help of the UN a mass vaccination campaign is now underway: children have for some years been inoculated, but the disease seems to have hit adults that were

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