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12 January 2012 –
With no registered polio
cases over the past year, India is on course to becoming
free of the disease, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) reported today.
If all pending samples for the virus test negative, India – once regarded as the world’s epicentre for polio – will become
free of the disease for the first
time in its history, reducing the
number of polio-endemic countries to three: Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria.
“India’s success is arguably its gr ....
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