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UNICEF Issues Statement Clarifying Reports Of Polio Cases In Madagascar
UNICEF released a statement on Tuesday correcting an October 21 report by its office in Madagascar "expressing concern over a resurgence of polio in Madagascar after a routine health survey identified vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV) in several healthy children." According to the statement, "there was no re-emergence of polio in Madagascar," and "[t]he last wild poliovirus case in Madagascar was detected in 1997."
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