WHO counts down Africa polio clock despite fears of new outbreak - EWN
 

WHO counts down Africa polio clock despite fears of new outbreak EWNGENEVA - Africa could be declared free of endemic ?wild? polio early next year if a strain last seen in Nigeria almost three years ago does not resurface, the World Health Organisation?s Africa director said on Tuesday. Africa?s last case of wild polio was recorded in Nigeria in August 2016. The country can now begin the months of paperwork needed before declaring that the virus is no longer circulating there, WHO Africa Regional Director Matshidiso Moeti told Reuters. ?We are hopeful that the way things are going, sometime early next year it might be possible,? Moeti said. There is no cure...



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