Health
At last, Africa eradicates poliovirus – The Southern Times
Windhoek -Africa has something to smile about on the disease control front after the Independent Africa Regional Certification Commission (ARCC) for Polio Eradication and the World Health Organization (WHO) African Region declared the continent free of wild poliovirus.
This is the second virus Africa has eradicated in 40 years after the elimination of smallpox.
ARCC chair, Professor Rose Gana Fomban Leke, recently issued a statement declaring the eradication of poliovirus in Nigeria, the last …
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