Africa declared free of wild polio

Health authorities have declared the African continent free of wild polio.

The declaration leaves Pakistan and neighbouring Afghanistan as the only countries thought to still have the virus, with vaccination efforts against the highly infectious, water-borne disease complicated by insecurity and attacks on health workers.

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