Africa: Is the World On Track for Polio Eradication By 2018?

11 September 2014
interview

Polio is a viral disease that, until the 1980s, crippled an estimated 350,000 children every year. After a global campaign for polio vaccination, in 2012, fewer than 250 children were paralysed worldwide.

But the disease remains endemic in Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan, and political instability is causing a polio comeback in Pakistan among other nations.

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