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Nigeria Celebrates One Year Without Polio case



Health officials in Nigeria are celebrating an impressive milestone: The country has gone one year without a single case of polio. The world is now one step closer to making polio the second human infectious disease – after smallpox – to be eradicated with an effective vaccination campaign.



Nigeria will need to go another two years without a recorded case of the disease before the WHO declares it polio-free