UNICEF announced on Monday that the organization and its partners began the largest-ever coordinated polio vaccination campaign in the Middle East following the return of the disease in war-torn Syria

Health teams are working to vaccinate close to 10 million children in Iraq, Jordan, Egypt and Syria during the month of March. The campaigns were launched in the four countries on Sunday with a similar campaign planned in Lebanon.

“We need to get two drops of polio vaccine into the mouth of every child under the age of five, regardless of their previous immunization history,” Khouzama al-Rasheed, a medical worker for the campaign, said. “If we can do that, the virus won’t be able to find a single child to infect, and we can put a stop to this disease.”

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