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Lao People's Democratic Republic (the): As world seeks to eradicate polio, Laos suffers vaccine-linked case

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Source: Reuters - Thomson Reuters Foundation
Country: Lao People's Democratic Republic (the)

GENEVA/LONDON, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Laos has suffered a case of vaccine-derived polio, the World Health Organization said on Monday, in a new setback to a global plan to eradicate the crippling disease after the virus resurfaced in Ukraine and Mali.

The WHO said an 8-year-old boy died of the disease on Sept. 11, and genetic sequencing suggested the virus strain has been circulating in the area of Bolikhamxay province, which has low immunisation rates, for more than two years.

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