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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/…
💉 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 ImageImage

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