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Africa celebrates one year without Polio: United Nations
August 12, 2015
Africa has marked one year since the last case of recorded polio, with the United Nations celebrating today a key step towards eradicating the disease.
The last recorded case on the continent was in Somalia on August 11, 2014, although health officials must wait two more years before declaring the continent free from the highly infectious, crippling virus.