POLIO
April 1st, 2002
BY KEITH NUTHALL
POLIO has driven to the edge of extinction, the World Health Organisation has claimed, with only 537 cases being reported globally in 2001. However, an expert panel overseeing the WHO campaign against the disease has warned that given the current prevalence of conflict, polio must be wiped out now, as delays could jeopardise the effort launched in 1988, when polio paralysed more than 1,000 children daily.
POLIO has driven to the edge of extinction, the World Health Organisation has claimed, with only 537 cases being reported globally in 2001. However, an expert panel overseeing the WHO campaign against the disease has warned that given the current prevalence of conflict, polio must be wiped out now, as delays could jeopardise the effort launched in 1988, when polio paralysed more than 1,000 children daily.
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