World Health Organisation
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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