Global health success: India certified free of polio
Source: CNN
By Madison Park, CNN
11:36 AM EDT, Thu March 27, 2014
(CNN) -- India has been certified polio-free by the World Health Organization after going three years without an endemic case of polio. The eradication of polio in India is heralded as one of the biggest achievements in global health efforts.
The polio-free certification by the Regional Certification Commission came Thursday, along with a proclamation that Southeast Asia is free of the disease.
Just five years ago, India was home to nearly half the global polio cases and considered one of the most technically difficult places to eradicate the disease, because of sanitation challenges and high-density population.
India's last case was reported in a young girl paralyzed by polio in West Bengal in January 2011.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/27/health/india-polio-3-years/
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