Cameroon No Longer a Polio Exporter

Cameroon says it has attained the status of a “non-polio exporting country” - hitting the 6-month mark without a new case. But the country is still considered a high risk nation with pockets of resistance to polio vaccination programs for children - especially in refugee camps. In 2014, the World Health Organization listed Cameroon among the 10 countries with active wild poliovirus and among the top four countries posing the greatest threat of exporting the crippling virus to other...

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