Thursday, August 25, 2011

UN hails Europe’s retention of polio-free status as ‘tremendous news’

From UN News Centre:Europe will retain its status as a polio-free region after Member States took satisfactory steps to combat an imported outbreak of the debilitating and sometimes fatal disease last year, in what the United Nations health agency hailed as “tremendous news.”The 53-nation region, which for the purposes of the UN World Health Organization (WHO) includes ex-Soviet nations in