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MANILA, Philippines\u2014Eighty percent of the world\u2019s population is now polio-free, the World Health Organization said.<\/p>\n\n
This after 11 countries in Asia were certified by experts as polio free, joining six other WHO regions that have successfully eradicated the infectious disease.<\/p>\n\n
\u201cThis is a momentous victory for the millions of health workers who have worked with governments, non-governmental organizations, civil society and international partners to eradicate polio from the region,\u201d Dr. Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Regional Director for the WHO Southeast Asia Region, said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n
Singh and his experts, who constitute the Southeast Asia Regional Certification Commission for Polio Eradication (SEA-RCCPE), reached a decision that all 11 countries in the region\u2014 Bangladesh, Bhutan, North Korea, India, Indonesia, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Timor Leste, are now polio-free after evidence met the requirements for certification.<\/p>\n\n
The following conditions must be met for a WHO region to be declared as polio free:<\/p>\n
\nAt least three years of zero confirmed cases due to indigenous wild poliovirus<\/li>\n Excellent laboratory-based surveillance for poliovirus<\/li>\n Demonstrated capacity to detect, report and respond to imported cases of poliomyelitis, and<\/li>\n Assurance of safe containment of polioviruses.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eighty percent of the world\u2019s population is now polio-free, the World Health Organization said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":930,"featured_media":307070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,43],"tags":[127751,11921,919],"byline":[115849],"source":[206075],"column":[],"editor":[],"videographer":[],"position":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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