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Global leaders at the World Health summit have committed to donating $2.54 billion to eradicating polio at the World Health Summit.
Polio, or poliomyelitis, is a disabling and life-threatening disease caused by the poliovirus. The virus spreads from person to person and can infect a person’s spinal cord; causing paralysis (can’t move parts of the body). It can spread easily from person to person. The World Health Organization's (WHO) aim is to eradicate polio completely and, if this happens, it will be only the third disease to have been beaten in this way, after smallpox and rinderpest. There are two vaccines available to fight polio: inactivated poliovirus (IPV) oral polio vaccine (OPV) |
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Mapping the Cases Polio cases- worldwide: Wild poliovirus is endemic in just two countries: Pakistan and Afghanistan. However, after just six cases were recorded in 2021, 29 cases have been recorded so far this year, including a small number of new detections in southeast Africa linked to a strain originating in Pakistan. Polio cases in India: The last case of polio in India was reported in Howrah, West Bengal on 13 January 2011. Since then, India has been free of the disease, officially receiving polio-free certification from the World Health Organization on 27 March 2014. |
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