Health facility action plan in the event of acute flaccid paralysis: treating polio in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, ca. 2000.
- Date:
- [2000?]
- Reference:
- 755659i
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Kenya : Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, [2000?]
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1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 59.2 x 41.9 cm
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Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation Division of Disease Surveillance and Reponse (DDSR). To all health workers in the Republic of Kenya. Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) is any case with weakness or floppiness in the limbs of sudden onset not due to injury, in a child less than 15 years or age or any case in which a clinician suspects polio ...
Bears logo of Ministry of Health: GoK
Bears logo: World Health Organization
Also lists suspected cases of Gullain-Barre syndrome or transverse myelitis
Includes 3 plans of action: 1. What to do after identification of AFP, 2. Storage and transport of specimens in vaccine carriers, 3. Important information about KEMRI, the only virological lab for virus isolations in Kenya where specimens should be sent to
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Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation WHO ca. 2000 10/08/2011 Kenya UkLW Transcription from the item
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Wellcome Collection 755659i
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