India shows the way for other polio-endemic nations
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After India’s unexpected feat of freeing itself from polio, the target to eradicate the debilitating disease from the world, set in 1988, seems possible.
By Kundan Pandey
When the WHO South East Asia region receives the certificate for being polio free on Thursday, it would be an accomplishment that until a few years ago was considered a pipe dream – mainly because of the large number of cases that continued to be reported from India.
As recently as 2009, India accounted for 741 out of th...
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