No Polio in South Sudan -- Officials

South Sudan and World Health Organization (WHO) officials have reassured locals and the international community that South Sudan is polio-free, after they found that three reported cases of the crippling disease were misdiagnoses. "We were given a false alarm last month when an error occurred in a reference lab in Nairobi, due to a human error," South Sudanese Health Minister Riek Gai Kok said after he was notified late last week by the WHO that two patients in Northern Bahr el ...

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