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Only four countries left with Polio

January 25, 2006

In campaign to eradicate polio, Egypt scores a victory - The Boston Globe

The health organization, pending a final review in the coming days, is expected next week to announce that Egypt and Niger will join almost the entire world in proving that they no longer have reservoirs of the virus. That would leave just four countries that have yet to stop transmission -- Nigeria, India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.

Owen comments - the new vaccines against polio are making a huge difference. We are tantalizingly close to eradicating the disease completely - a feat that has only been achieved with smallpox.

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