Polio outbreak in Namibia after a decade without

June 06, 2006

Namibia has had its first polio outbreak for more than a decade, according to BBC NEWS

Namibia has announced that the country is suffering from its first polio outbreak in more than a decade."It is quite a setback for us. We were moving closer to achieving the status of polio eradication," health ministry official Dr. Kalumbi Shangula said.

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