U.N. News Centre: Five polio-free years in South-East Asia Region, announces U.N. health agency
“The United Nations health agency [on Tuesday] announced that the South-East Asia Region has completed five years without any case of wild poliovirus … [The WHO] is underlining that completing half a decade without any case of wild poliovirus is ‘yet another achievement’ and a reminder that efforts need to continue until the disease is eradicated globally…” (1/12).