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World to be polio-free by next year, but losing AIDS war.
2004 MAY 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The world is likely to be polio-free next year, but the war against AIDS is being lost, the U.S. health secretary says.
"We're on the precipice of accomplishing it," Tommy Thompson said of eliminating polio.
If the current vaccination campaign is successful, polio will become only the second known disease after smallpox to be wiped out by humankind.
Thompson said he'd spent an encouraging day in New Delhi hearing Indian officials' and volunteers' plans to go door-to-door across the country, making sure all children under 5 are immunized.
"We're probably down to the last 1000 cases, probably the most difficult to eradicate," he told reporters.
The remaining cases are in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Egypt, Nigeria and Niger.
But the last group of cases is the hardest to deal with because poverty and lack of education prevent people from understanding the need for vaccinations, Thompson said.
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Source: HighBeam Research, World to be polio-free by next year, but losing AIDS war.