New $5.5 billion plan aims to rid world of polio by 2018

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New $5.5 billion plan aims to rid world of polio by 2018

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/5-5-billion-plan-aims-rid-world-polio-121822805.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/XdoTmRi0za.W0R5dRD0YEw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_ZA/News/Reuters/2013-04-25T122149Z_2_AJOE93O0YAG00_RTROPTP_2_OZATP-HEALTH-POLIO-ERADICATION-20130425.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="(Blank Headline Received)" align="left" title="(Blank Headline Received)" border="0" /></a>By Kate Kelland, Health and Science Correspondent LONDON (Reuters) - Health groups said on Thursday they could rid the world of polio by 2018 with a $5.5 billion vaccination and monitoring plan to stop the disease taking hold once more now there are only a handful of cases worldwide. Experts say the plan offers the best chance yet to eradicate a disease that until the 1950s crippled many thousands of people every year but has been brought almost to extinction though effective vaccine campaigns. ...</p><br clear="all"/>

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