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Suspected Case Of Polio Under Investigation In India, Threatens Country's Eradication Efforts
On Monday, "a girl admitted to a hospital in West Bengal with polio-like symptoms sparked worries that India's battle against polio may not be over yet," the Wall Street Journal's "India Real Time" blog reports, noting, "The suspected polio case ... comes just two weeks after the WHO removed India from the list of countries where polio is endemic" (Stancati, 3/14). "'It is a suspected case of polio. In medical parlance, the symptoms are called acute flaccid paralysis. The patient is under observation,' Kumar Kanti Das, superintendent of Baruipur Subdivisional Hospital, [where the girl was admitted,] told the local Hindustan Times newspaper," the Guardian writes (Burke, 3/13).
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