There is a high risk of polio spreading in Ebola-ravaged Guinea and Mali, the World Health Organization said on Monday, after a Guinean toddler travelled to Mali and became that country’s first case of the crippling disease in more than four years.
Preliminary tests by authorities in Mali’s capital showed the 19-month-old was paralyzed on July 20, seven days before being brought to Bamako for treatment. The strain of the virus is the same as one detected in Siguiri in Guinea’s Kankan region, in August 2014.
The Mali polio case, caused by a strain of the virus known as type 2, is …read more
Source: Voice of America
