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UN Agency Declares Global Health Emergency to Stem Potential Resurgence of Polio

Oral poliovirus vaccine. Photo: WHO

GENEVA–(ENEWSPF)–5 May 2014 – The spread of polio in countries where it was once eradicated is an “extraordinary event” and unless an international coordinated response is urgently put in place, the preventable disease will resurge, the United Nations health agency today warned.

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Members of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Emergency Committee meetingtoday in Geneva unanimously agreed that the over-riding priority for all polio-infected countries must be to…

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