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The @WHO declared Africa free of wild poliovirus last year. On the first anniversary, 3 polio survivors share their stories about living with polio and their hopes of a polio-free world. #ph260720 #polio #poliofree
Africa has been declared free of wild #polio, an infectious disease that paralyzed about 75,000 children on the continent every year during the 1990s #PolioFree
“This is a momentous milestone for Africa,” said WHO Africa regional director @MoetiTshidi.
The milestone paves the way for polio to become the second-disease ever to be wiped out globally after small pox bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
The milestone paves the way for polio to become the second-disease ever to be wiped out globally after small pox bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
💉 MORE: “We must stay vigilant and keep up vaccination rates to avert a resurgence of the wild poliovirus and address the continued threat of the vaccine-derived #polio,” said @MoetiTshidi on Tuesday bloom.bg/2YxVOwp 
