2013-07-22 Somalia: Polio tekee paluuta (Polio Eradication Suffers A Setback)

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Polio Eradication Suffers A Setback As Somali Outbreak Worsens
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/07/19/203601730/SOMALIA-POLIO-OUTBREAK




Somalia hadn't had a case of polio for nearly six years. But in the past few months, the virus has come back. Now the East African country has the worst polio outbreak anywhere in the world.


Twenty new cases of polio were reported this week in Somalia by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. That brings the total number of cases in the Horn of Africa to 73. The rest of the world combined has tallied only 59 cases so far this year.


Health workers are worried that the virus could gain a foothold in the Horn of Africa and jeopardize the multibillion-dollar effort to wipe out the virus worldwide.