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Eugene

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Fri Nov 14, 2014, 09:33 PM Nov 2014

Polio eradication programme reaches 'major milestone'

Source: BBC

15 November 2014 Last updated at 00:02 GMT

Polio eradication programme reaches 'major milestone'

By James Gallagher
Health editor, BBC News website

A "major milestone" in the battle to eliminate polio globally has been reached, the US Centres for Disease Control (CDC) has said.

Its experts think a second of the three forms of poliovirus has been eliminated after mass vaccination campaigns.

Wild poliovirus type 3 has not been detected for more than two years. Type 2 was eradicated in 1999.

Experts said the world was "closer than ever" to defeating polio but the situation in Pakistan was worrying.

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