Epidemics
Jun 17 2009, Mykses

Kenya proved it in 2007, when the East African nation suffered its first case of the polio virus in more than 20 years, said Yusuf Ajack Ibrahim, a health care worker at the Kenyan Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation.

As thousands of Somalis fled.

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