The World Health Organization an**unced on Monday that it had convened
emergency talks amid rising concern over
polio after cases were discovered in Afghanistan, Iraq and Equatorial Guinea. The UN health agency said that following several days of closed-door discussions, it would decide whether to declare the new spread of
polio a "public health
emergency of international concern" that could require measures such as travel restrictions.
polio is currently endemic in three countries, Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan, down from 125 in 1988.
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