NAIROBI nike air zoom pegasus all out flyknit australia , Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- Two UN agencies said on Thursday polio vaccinations will continue in Somalia despite the Horn of Africa nation marking six months since the last polio case was seen in the country.


The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), the World Health Organization (WHO) and Somali authorities said they are taking a cautious approach since the task of eradication is not finished yet as risks remain.


"We have defeated polio before and we will do it again. This is an important milestone, but there is no room for complacency," UNICEF Somalia Representative Steven Lauwerier said in a statement issued in Nairobi.


"We will continue to support the Somali health authorities with the vaccination campaigns until we are certain that no more children will suffer from this highly infectious disease nike air solarsoft zigzag australia ," Lauwerier said.


According to the UN agencies, polio continues to threaten the lives of Somali children and the campaigns to eradicate polio will continue in 2015. The last outbreak affected 199 people, mostly children.


Polio was detected in Somalia in May 2013, for the first time in six years nike air max tavas australia , after the parents of a two-year-old girl in Mogadishu found she was unable to walk. The virus, which can cause paralysis or even death, spread quickly affecting 194 people in 2013.


However, the number was contained to just five cases in 2014 nike air max typha australia , one of them an adult who died, all in the remote Mudug region of Puntland, northeastern Somalia. The last case was reported in Hobyo district, Mudug on Aug. 11 nike air max 270 australia , 2014.


Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia, Philippe Lazzarini said it is a breakthrough that the polio outbreak has been curbed in the Horn of Africa nation.


"The vaccination campaigns have been a massive undertaking from the community level upwards and we must keep up the momentum until we are sure polio has been completely wiped out," Lazzarini added.


Since the outbreak began, the authorities nike air max tn australia , with the support of the two UN agencies, have targeted more than 2 million children under the age of five for vaccinations as well as children aged from five to 10 and adults in some areas.


The vaccination campaigns began as soon as the news of the first case came out as at the time Somalia was home to the largest pool of unvaccinated children in the world with over half a million children unvaccinated for more than five years.


WHO Somalia Representative Ghulam Popal said the tremendous effort of government of Somalia and its partners in containing the outbreak is highly commendable.


"But polio has not yet been stopped for good, and efforts must continue to ensure polio free status for children in Somalia," said Popal.


"Care and vigilance are crucial to ensure that children all over Somalia are vaccinated nike air vapormax 95 australia , despite the challenges posed by inaccessibility and insecurity."


Somalia reported its last indigenous Wild Poliovirus (WPV) case in 2002. In 2005, the country