An Afghan health worker administers polio vaccine drops to a child on the second day of a vaccination campaign in Kabul. © SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images)
On 11th August 2014, the last ever case of polio in Africa was reported in Somalia. After a three decades-long global programme to eliminate the disease for good, the end is now in sight.
Somalia had thought it was clear—there had been six years without cases—when, in May 2013, a two-year-old girl in Mogadishu woke one morning unable to walk. That year, 194 Somalians contracted polio. But in 2014, the number fell to just five. Since then …read more
Source: Prospect
