Kenya to introduce H1N1 vaccine

Kenya will introduce vaccination against the H1N1 influenza virus commonly known as Swine Flu in January after the World Health Organisation (WHO) offered 730,000 doses of the vaccine.

In an exclusive interview with Capital News, the Director of Public Health Dr Shahnaaz Shariff said that Kenya and Togo would be the first African countries to receive the vaccine from WHO which are enough to vaccinate 10 percent of the population.

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“The United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada have actually started immunising their citizens against H1N1 and they are also targeting the high risk groups. The difference is they are paying it from their own tax payers’ money but we are getting from the WHO stockpile,” he said.

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