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WHO Regional Office for Africa |
New milestone towards a polio-free world, but there is no time to relax
The last case of type 3 in Africa was detected in northern Nigeria in 2012
In another historic step for humanity towards a world free of polio, an independent commission of experts today certified – on World Polio Day – that the second of three types of the wild poliovirus had been eradicated globally. There are three individual and immunologically distinct wild poliovirus types: wild…
