Nigeria: Osotimehin - Only Country With Three Polio Types

8 April 2009

Kano — Minister of Health, Professor Babatunde Osotimehin, yesterday in Kano, said Nigeria is the only country in the world with all the three types of polio virus in circulation.

Speaking in Kano during the 52 National Health Meeting, Osotimehin said, "it has become more worrisome that we are serving as exporters of the disease to our neighbours, and besides the global concern, Nigerian children continue to be paralysed by the virus, adding that in the year 2008, about 806 Nigerian children were paralysed or deformed by polio disease, nearly three times more than previous year."

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