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Mrs_hart
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Username: Mrs_hart
Post Number: 296
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 07:18 pm: | 
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Virus now endemic in just four countries worldwide
Updated: 11:13 a.m. ET Feb. 1, 2006
GENEVA - Polio has been stamped out in Egypt and Niger, leaving just four nations in the world where the deadly disease is endemic, the U.N. health agency said Wednesday.
The polio virus has not infected anyone in the two African countries during the last 12 months, leaving only Afghanistan, India, Nigeria and Pakistan as countries where the disease is still classified as endemic — meaning it has always been present there, the World Health Organization said.
Polio is still present in eight other countries — including Yemen, Indonesia and Somalia — where it had previously been eradicated before being imported again from one of the endemic countries, WHO said.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11127819/
Thank you, God!!!!
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Ntfs_encryption
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Username: Ntfs_encryption
Post Number: 170
Registered: 10-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, February 04, 2006 - 04:51 pm: |
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Mrs. Hart wrote: "Polio is still present in eight other countries — including Yemen, Indonesia and Somalia — where it had previously been eradicated before being imported again from one of the endemic countries, WHO said."
Hopefully the virus will be eradicated in those countries also. |
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