Polio in Kenya

Currently, there is a polio outbreak in Kenya, and it goes few months back. There are many articles on newspapers these days. Unfortunatelly, per WHO the illness started at the refugee camps boardering Somalia.  Sadly none of the children in these camps have immunizations neither adaquate health checks or doctor visits. So it spreaded pretty quickly in the country. Neverless, majority of Kenyan kids do not have immunizations for their age group. Even the schools are very large (careless) about this sensitive and life threatening subject, for example when I registered my kids into their current school, the school did not require their immunization card. And this school is so called! one of the good schools' in Nairobi...Anyway, finally, last week I had a call from my children's school and told Kenyan government started immunization process for all the children in Kenya, which I believe should have been done earlier. But still is a great news, because polio is a horrible illness especially for new borns and toddlers and it is fatal, the good thing is it can easily be stopped and prevented with immunization. So hoping we will stop hearing polio cases soon.