Polio outbreak`
The threat of a polio outbreak looms over west and central Africa. The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), an international campaign, issued this warning following the confirmation of one new polio case in Guinea and two in Mali. The disease had been eradicated from both the countries five years ago. With these new cases, 12 countries have been re-infected with the virus following the ban on polio vaccine in parts of northern Nigeria in 2003 (see:
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