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   Health: UN Agency Steps Up Anti-Polio Campaign

 
ScienceThe World Health Organization says it will increase its efforts to eradicate polio, with mass immunizations of children in seven countries in Africa and south Asia.International health officials say 99 percent of new polio cases are in India, Pakistan, Nigeria and Egypt. Smaller numbers of children have been affected in Afghanistan, Niger and Somalia.Since the WHO began its first campaign to eradicate polio in 1988, the number of children paralyzed by the virus each year has dropped from 350,000 to 235,000. But doctors worry that the viral infection could spread from countries where it is still prevalent to those where it has been eliminated.

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