For a while, it was believed that polio had already been gone in the face of effective vaccination.
Speaking at the 63rd Session of WHO Regional Committee for South East Asia WHO director general Margaret Chan Wednesday revealed polio cases were now detected in India, Nigeria, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.
"With migration, the disease has also spread to the border area of Burma and Indonesia," she said.
Held in Bangkok, the regional meeting also attracted representatives from Bangladesh, Bhutan, North Korea, India, Indonesia, Maldives, Burma, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Timor Leste.
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