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August 21, 2019
WHO’s Regional Director for Africa, MatshidisoMoeti, has said that Nigeria on Wednesday marked three years free of endemicwild polio.
Moeti made this known on Wednesday during telenewsconference, saying it shows that Africa had passed a milestone threshold ofthree years with no case of wild polio virus detected.
Moeti said that this three-year landmark sets inmotion a comprehensive evaluation process by the Africa Regional CertificationCommission to determine if the entire WHO African Region of 47 countries couldbe declared to have eradicated Wild Polio Virus.
That Africa’slast case of wild polio was recorded in Borno on Aug. 21, 2016.
Polio is a highly infectious viral disease thatinvades the nervous system.
It can cause total paralysis in a matter of hours;the virus is transmitted from person-to-person through ingestion of infectedfecal matter
Following infection, the virus is shedintermittently in excrement for several weeks with little or no symptoms inmajority of cases.
The initial symptoms of poliomyelitis include fever,fatigue, headache, vomiting, neck stiffness and pain in the limbs.