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Published: Friday, 13 April 2018 16:20

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Photo: Cadenagramonte.Abuja, Apr 13.- The World Health Organization (WHO) began here a vaccination program against Yellow Fever, which will cover one billion African people, reported today a regional media.

Through this initiative, this dangerous pathogen will be definitively eliminated on the continent by 2026, where it is one of the main causes of death, stated Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, general director of that UN agency at the launching in Nigeria, quoted by africanews.

'With a single injection we can protect a person for life' against yellow fever or black vomit, an acute viral zoonotic infectious disease transmitted by mosquitoes of the genre Aedes and Haemagogus, endemic in subtropical and tropical areas of South America and Africa, explained the expert.

The campaign, coordinated between the WHO, the United Nations Children's Organization (Unicef), the World vaccine alliance (GAVI) and more than 50 international partners that support health, faces the growing proliferation in the region of this viral disease transmitted by mosquitoes

The program means 'an unprecedented commitment' to get Africa rid of the epidemics of this disease, where today the threat of that condition 'seems greater than ever, especially for thousands of children,' assured Stefan Peterson, chief of Unicef health. (Cadenagramonte)

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