Fight against polio launched in Ivory Coast

On foot and by bicycle, an army of 28,000 people advanced through towns and remote villages in Ivory Coast Sunday to vaccinate children against polio in an effort to finally defeat the crippling disease. Ivory Coast was polio free in 2001 but the outbreak of civil war a year later wreaked havoc with immunization campaigns and 17 cases were ...

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