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The World Health Organization (WHO) has for the first time that South-East Asia is now free from polio. The WHO 11 countries as clear of the killer disease. The WHO website said: "This is the fourth of six WHO regions to be certified, an important step towards global eradication of polio – a highly infectious virus that the nervous system and can total paralysis in a matter of hours. With this step, 80 per cent of the world's population now in certified polio-free regions." One of the newly-certified countries India, which as recently as 2009, home to almost 50 per cent of the world's polio cases. India hasn't a single polio case for the last three years.

Polio is currently an incurable disease. It to paralysis of the limbs and eventually anyone who it. Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, regional director for the WHO, said: "This is a momentous victory for the millions of health workers who have with governments, non-governmental organizations, civil society and international partners to polio from the region." She added: "It is a sign of what we can our children when we together." Dr Singh also against becoming complacent in the fight against the disease. She said: "Until polio is globally , all countries are at risk and the region's polio-free status fragile."

 


 
 

 

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