Somalia: Declared Free of Polio

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August 18, 2015

The World Health Organization has announced that Somalia is free of the polio virus, after no cases of the illness were reported in the past year. Now, the Somali Ministry of Health and its partners say they hope to announce full eradication of the virus in the next three years. Abdulaziz Billow reports for VOA from Mogadishu.

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