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Polio
Mar 25 2008, Desh

A vaccination campaign has rid Somalia of polio, encouraging hopes that the virus can be halted in other insecure regions, the World Health Organisation said on Tuesday.

No Somali child has been paralysed by polio in the past year as a result of a...

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Kabul:

An Afghan child cries as a health worker administers polio vaccines outside his house during a polio campaign in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Oct 19, 2008.