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Flooding affects polio campaign

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    A government team on Thursday travelled to northern Congo to assess the impact of recent flooding in several areas, UN and media sources said. UN agencies provided some drugs and water purification tablets for the mission. State television last Friday reported that some 40,000 people in about 30 villages of the Cuvette regions had been affected by the floods. Meanwhile, the flooding would add to the already existing access problems for the national polio vaccination campaign, which targets some 400,000 children, according to a UN report received by IRIN on Friday.

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