1. Triumph: Polio used to cripple more than 75,000 African children a year, but the most dangerous form of the disease was declared eradicated on the continent yesterday after a three-decade battle resulting in 95 per cent immunization. Four years after the last reported cases in northeast Nigeria, the World Health Organization praised the work of gover…
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