The new Global Immunization News 31 August 2010 leads the issue with a report on the Pakistan Flood situation noting that “polio eradication staff and resources have been mobilized to support the response to the devastating floods directly affecting one in 10 people in Pakistan. All polio-funded technical staff – polio epidemiologists and surveillance officers – have been relocated to the worst-affected areas of the country to assist in the recovery. These staff are focused on three main areas: a rapid assessment of the extent of damage to health facilities; the establishment of early warning systems for disease outbreaks; and, the planning, delivery and monitoring of broad immunization activities in internally-displaced-persons camps…”
More at: http://www.who.int/immunization/GIN_August_2010.pdf
