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Africa Was Just Officially Declared Free of the Wild Poliovirus, Says WHO – Interesting Engineering
The campaign to eradicate wild poliovirus from Africa has finally succeeded, declares the WHO.
The World Health Organization declared Africa free of the wild poliovirus after a decades-long campaign to eliminate the infamous disease throughout the world, according to a Tuesday press release on the WHO’s website.
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Wild poliovirus gone from Africa, declares WHO
“Today is a historic day for Africa,” said Professor Rose Gana Fomban Leke, part of the commission that certified there were no polio cases on the world’s largest continent for fou…
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