Polio Went From 125+ Countries to Just 2 💉 #Shorts #LessonToday
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Three takeaways
In 1988 polio was endemic in more than 125 countries, with an estimated 350,000 cases, mostly young children, and about 1 in 200 infections causes irreversible paralysis.
That year the World Health Assembly launched the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, and health workers carried oral vaccine drops to children around the world.
The Americas were certified polio-free in 1994, and the WHO African Region was declared free of wild poliovirus in 2020.