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WHO: Africa reaches important milestone in polio eradication
13.08.2015 08:02 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
Africa has reached an important milestone in becoming polio-free, UN Radio says referring to the World Health Organization (WHO) report.
As to the report, this week marks one year since the last wild polio case was detected on the entire African continent, a sign of important progress in eradicating the deadly disease.
The report admits in the Horn of Africa, no wild polio cases have been registered since the last case in central Somalia on 11 Aug 2014.
As to the report, in Nigeria, the last African country where polio has been widespread, a case was last reported on this year 24 Jul.
WHO says that if no new cases are confirmed in Nigeria in the next few weeks, and none throughout Africa in the next two years, the continent could be certified polio-free by the Africa Regional Certification Commission and that would leave only two countries, Pakistan and Afghanistan, where polio transmission has never been interrupted.
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