U.N. Supporting Yellow Fever Vaccination Campaigns In Cameroon, Ghana
Monday, February 06, 2012
Following an outbreak of the mosquito-borne yellow fever virus in Cameroon that has infected at least 23 people and killed at least seven people, U.N. and local officials are working to vaccinate "1.2 million people considered at high risk of contracting yellow fever, which has no cure," the U.N. News Centre reports. "The U.N. Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF), the International Coordinating Group on Yellow Fever Provision (YF-ICG) -- which includes WHO and the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) -- and the public-private partnership known as the GAVI Alliance are funding the vaccination campaign," the news service writes. In Ghana, YF-ICG is working with the European Community Humanitarian Office (ECHO) to plan a vaccination campaign after at least three cases of yellow fever have been reported in the north of the country, the U.N. News Centre notes (2/3).
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