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World Health Organization South-East Asia Region

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World Health Organization South-East Asia Region

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WHO South-East Asia Region is certified polio free

📅 27 March 2014

The region’s member states received certification of interrupted indigenous wild poliovirus transmission.

India joins a certified polio-free region

📅 27 March 2014

India’s last wild case was in 2011, and regional certification followed sustained surveillance.

Regional health systems achieve a polio milestone

📅 27 March 2014

Vaccination campaigns and case monitoring supported the certification decision.

Certification concerns wild poliovirus transmission

📅 27 March 2014

This milestone did not mean that all forms of polio risk worldwide had disappeared.