Africa Declares Wild Polio Is Wiped Out — Yet It Persists In Vaccine-Derived Cases

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    An oral polio vaccine, containing weakened live virus, is administered in a health enter in Togo. Africa has declared that wild polio has been eradicated but a relatively small number of cases of vaccine-derived polio persist.

    The Kick Polio Out Of Africa Campaign began in 1996. This week, the World Health Organization announced that wild polio had been eradicated — although there is a caveat.

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