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05/05/2006 - SOMALIA. APPEAL LAUNCHED TO STOP SPREAD OF POLIO.
Health officials have warned that ongoing vaccination campaigns in Somalia, which has seen 202 children infected with polio since July 2005, must be sustained to prevent the disease spreading to neighbouring countries.
"It must be kept in mind that despite all these other emergencies, we still have a funding gap in the polio campaign," said Marjatta Tolvanen-Ojutangas, the head of the health and nutrition unit at the Somalia office of the United Nations Children's Fund