NIGERIA DECLARED POLIO-FREE, REMOVED FROM ENDEMIC LIST

Posted by Gil Jones 
on Oct 12, 2015
 
 This is a big deal. The Rotary International/World Health Organization collaboration has almost licked polio, everywhere.
 
"The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on 25 September that Nigeria is now polio-free and has been officially removed from the list of countries where polio is endemic. It’s been 14 months since any cases of polio caused by the wild virus have been detected there. With Nigeria’s historic achievement, polio remains endemic in only two countries: Afghanistan and Pakistan. That means transmission of the virus has never been stopped there."
 
And "In other encouraging news, an independent global health commission officially verified on 21 September that wild poliovirus type 2, one of three strains of the wild virus, has been eradicated worldwide."