Reuters: Nigeria hopes to eradicate polio despite insurgency
“A Nigerian military offensive against Islamist insurgent group Boko Haram has opened up a corridor for mobile units of health workers to vaccinate children against polio in parts of the northeast. But the worsening insurgency poses a grave risk to the campaign to stamp out the crippling virus in Africa’s most populous nation…” (Cocks/Hussain, 7/15).