WHO declares Africa wild polio free, told to remain vigilant
A Health worker administers a vaccine to a child during a vaccination campaign against polio at Hotoro-Kudu, Nassarawa district of Kano in northwest Nigeria. PHOTO | AFP
Africa has been declared wild polio-free after a three-decade campaign against the disease that once paralysed about 75,000 children on the continent every year.
The highly contagious disease is the second to be eradicated since smallpox 40 years ago, the World Health Organisation (WHO) Africa director Matshidiso Moeti said on Tuesday. However, a minor strain still infects hundreds.
