World Partners Intensify Effort to End Polio
09/13/2013
A child receives the polio vaccine in Somalia.
From VOA Learning English, this is As It Is.
Welcome to the show. I’m Caty Weaver.
On the program today, we explore the continuing international effort to end polio following an outbreak of the disease in Africa. Then we go to a beautiful national park in Uganda. Security and roads are improving in the area. Ugandan officials hope such change will help attract more visitors.
Polio Outbreak
The international community came very close earlier this year to stopping polio. But four months ago, the polio virus reappeared. It was discovered in the Horn of Africa, first in Somalia. But health workers are not giving up efforts to stop polio permanently. Jim Tedder reports.
Some experts think the Banadir area of Somalia is what they call the “engine” of the Horn of Africa polio outbreak. The area includes this refugee camp in the country’s capital, Mogadishu.
In June, three-year-old Mohamed Naasir became sick. His mother told VOA that a short time later, one leg of his legs became permanently disabled.
“My son was fine, but he started having a high fever, which lasted for almost four days. I gave him medicine, but there was no change. The following morning, he said to me, ‘Mom, I can’t stand up.’”
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