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Bangladesh polio-free for 3 years, health minister says.
2003 SEP 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Bangladesh has completed its third year as a polio-free country, but must continue with its massive vaccination program to prevent the crippling disease from entering from neighboring India, a top health official says.
"Though Bangladesh is now a polio-free country, we are not yet free from the danger as there are polio victims in our neighboring country," Bangladesh Health Minister Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain told a news conference.
Polio - a disease spread by a virus that paralyzes and occasionally kills - used to afflict thousands of children in South Asia. But cases have drastically dropped since Bangladesh and other countries in the region started vaccination campaigns in the 1990s as part of a worldwide effort to wipe out polio by 2005.
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