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World Health says Syria is polio-free

DAMASCUS, Dec. 23 (Xinhua) – The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared Syria polio-free, calling it a "public health victory at regional and global levels." SANA).

"Based on the joint field assessment conducted during previous visits of the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF on the procedures to be followed to deal with the mutated virus poliovirus type 2, in Syria for more than a year, which represents a victory for public health at the regional and global levels. "

It should be noted that the year 2013 has recorded several cases of poliomyelitis of Pakistani origin originally borne by armed terrorist groups in Syria after it has been declared free from the disease. since 1995 and conducted by the Ministry of Health a series of national vaccination campaigns that have reduced the transmission of the virus. Since the beginning of 2014, the disease returned in June 2016, when the Global Polio Eradication Initiative announced the registration of confirmed cases of polio virus in Deir Ezzor, followed up Ministry of National Immunization Campaigns. Both

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