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15:28, June 29, 2007 |
The World Health Organization (WHO) has adjudged Nepal a polio-free country, a report published here on Thursday by the organization said.
According to The Himalayan Times, last year, after finding polio patients in Nepal's adjoining Uttar Pradesh and Bihar statesof India, officials of the WHO had suspected there would be polio cases in Nepal too. However, those fears have proved unfounded.
WHO's New Delhi-based official V Cherian was quoted by the daily as saying that no case of polio was detected in either Nepalor Bangladesh.
In 2006, polio swept Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria on an epidemic scale, said the WHO report. Some 531 polio patients were detected in these countries that year.
The WHO expressed satisfaction that only 171 polio patients were detected in 2007 in these countries.
In 2006, WHO identified 1,998 polio patients the world over.
According to the WHO, unlike in 2006 when India had 676 of polio patients, only 82 patients were detected there in 2007.
All these cases were in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. The WHO official said that the sharp drop in polio cases was due to the polio-drops administering drive in India.
Source: Xinhua
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