3 Endemic Countries Hold the Key to a Polio-Free World

As another World Polio Day comes around, the World Health Organization reports three polio endemic countries— Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nigeria — hold the key to the global eradication of this crippling disease.    About one-half million children were becoming paralyzed by polio every year when the World Health Organization began its global polio eradication campaign three decades ago.  Today, that number has been reduced by more than 99 percent.   WHO reports...

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