Africa faces large polio outbreak as virus spreads
Last Updated: 2004-06-22 12:47:07 -0400 (Reuters Health)
GENEVA (Reuters) - West and central Africa, where five times as many children have been hit by polio in 2004 as last year, is on the brink of the largest epidemic in years with thousands of potential victims, experts warned on Tuesday.
A recent case in Sudan, which had not recorded any infections in three years, is the latest setback to a campaign to eradicate the crippling disease worldwide by 2005, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative said in a statement.
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