Polio cases confirmed in South Sudan, Madagascar: WHO

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Polio cases confirmed in South Sudan, Madagascar: WHO

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/polio-cases-confirmed-south-sudan-madagascar-211723963.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/U5s4vPU.v0iztmCzubTJCg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/f6ddf245023d91ee4bf90bc8391397dcd64a7ef9.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="A child receives a polio vaccine in Minkammen, South Sudan, on January 10, 2014" align="left" title="A child receives a polio vaccine in Minkammen, South Sudan, on January 10, 2014" border="0" /></a>The World Health Organization said Friday it had confirmed unrelated cases of polio in South Sudan and in Madagascar, blaming low vaccination coverage. The UN health agency said two cases of so-called type two vaccine-derived poliovirus had been confirmed in South Sudan in camps for people displaced by the country's civil war. The crippling disease, which usually impacts young children, had been found in two patients in Unity State hit with acute flaccid paralysis (AFP), WHO said. Vaccine-derived polio infections are in rare cases caused by one type of polio vaccine, which contains small amounts of weakened but live polio virus.</p><br clear="all"/>

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