{"id":39144,"date":"2020-08-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/26\/who-polio-eradicated-in-africa\/"},"modified":"2020-08-27T16:10:05","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T16:10:05","slug":"who-polio-eradicated-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/26\/who-polio-eradicated-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO: Polio Eradicated in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Campaign by governments and nonprofits delivered nearly 9 billion polio vaccines<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>WEDNESDAY, Aug. 26, 2020 (HealthDay News) &#8212; An effort that began in 1996 has led to the eradication of polio in Africa, according to the World Health Organization.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign by governments and nonprofits delivered nearly 9 billion polio vaccines, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a livestreamed event on Tuesday, <i>CNN<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The end of wild polio in Africa is a great day,&#8221; said Tedros, who chairs the polio oversight board. &#8220;Your success is the success of the world. None of us could have done this alone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There is no treatment or cure for polio, but vaccination can prevent infection with the once common virus, <i>CNN<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/08\/25\/health\/polio-eradication-africa-who\/index.html\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>CNN<\/i> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/detail\/25-08-2020-global-polio-eradication-initiative-applauds-who-african-region-for-wild-polio-free-certification\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More Information<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campaign by governments and nonprofits delivered nearly 9 billion polio vaccines<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":39164,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-39144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}