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# Polio has been eradicated from Africa

[Medical Pharmaceutical Translations](https://aiatranslations.com/blog/topic/medical-pharmaceutical-translations) • Aug 31, 2020 12:00:00 AM

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It’s strange to think of medical news today as “good”. But here’s some really good news: Wild polio (strands of the polio virus that occur naturally, not from a vaccine mutation) has officially been eradicated from Africa.

It hasn’t been easy; in some places in Nigeria, for instance, health workers often risked their lives to inform the public and administer vaccines among threats from groups like Boko Haram.

[Read on](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-53887947?intlink_from_url=https://www.bbc.com/news/health&link_location=live-reporting-story) to learn more about the challenges of informing and vaccinating an entire continent against this serious and often fatal disease, and what the future may hold.

*A child in Nigeria gets a polio vaccine.*

[*Image source*](https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/09/nigeria-outbreak-forces-rethink-polio-strategies)

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