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3/9/20 UN says new polio outbreak in Sudan caused by oral vaccine >The World Health Organization says a new polio outbreak in Sudan is linked to an ongoing vaccine-sparked epidemic in Chad — a week after the U.N. health agency declared the African continent free of the wild poliovirus. In a statement this week, WHO said two children in Sudan – one from South Darfur state and the other from Gedarif state, close to the border with Ethiopia and Eritrea – were paralyzed in March and April. Both had been…
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