BBC: The World Health Organization declared the spread of polio as an international public health emergency.
BBC: The World Health Organization declared the spread of polio as an international public health emergency.
The WHO recorded 417 cases of polio worldwide for the whole of 2013. For 2014, it had already recorded 68 cases by 30 April – up from 24 in the same period last year.
“The international spread of polio to date in 2014 constitutes an ‘extraordinary event’ and a public health risk to other states for which a co-ordinated international response is essential,” the WHO’s International Health Regulations Emergency Committee said in statement.
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