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Africa now free of wild poliovirus but polio threat remains – TRT World
WHO declaration leaves Pakistan and neighbouring Afghanistan the only countries thought to still have the wild poliovirus, with vaccination efforts against the disease complicated by insecurity and attacks on health workers.
WHO declaration leaves Pakistan and neighbouring Afghanistan the only countries thought to still have the wild poliovirus, with vaccination efforts against the disease complicated by insecurity and attacks on health workers.
In this April 24, 2013 file photo, a Somali baby receives a polio vaccine at the Medina Maternal Child Health centre in Mogadishu, Somalia.
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UN’s World Health Organization has declared that Africa was now free of poliovirus, a landmark in a decades-long campaign to e…
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