Polio Eradication

• How does polio spread? What are the symptoms? Here’s what we know

  The polio virus is considered very contagious and spreads mostly from person to person, through contaminated water and via fecal particles.

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  Aug 12, 2022
  
• Africa to be declared free of wild polio

  The World Health Organization is set to declare Africa free of wild polio.

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  Aug 25, 2020
  
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• We’ve almost eliminated polio worldwide. Here’s how.

  Polio used to infect hundreds of thousands of children each year around the world. Now, it's less than 200.

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  Oct 27, 2019
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• Philippines vaccinates millions as cases of polio appear

  Two children have contracted polio in the Philippines, the first cases since 1993.

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  Sep 20, 2019