Indonesia to vaccinate 24.3 million children against polio

Indonesia will vaccinate 24.3 million youngsters in a nationwide campaign to halt a polio epidemic that has infected 122 children across the archipelago, the country’s health minister said today.

“The polio virus which has attacked Indonesia is dangerous,” Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari said at a news conference. “In order to stop the outbreak, we will hold a national immunisation campaign” on August 30 and again on September 27.