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April 8, 2014

Iraqi Children at Risk as Polio Spreads from Syria 
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An outbreak of polio in Syria has officially spread into neighboring
Iraq amid warnings scores of Iraqi children could be at risk. The
disease was confirmed in a six-month-old baby boy in Baghdad late last
month, marking Iraq's first case in 14 years. Polio has paralyzed dozens
of children in Syria where it emerged last year for the first time since
1999. The virus has been traced to Pakistan, where anti-polio workers
have come under frequent attack after a polio vaccination campaign was
used by the CIA to help find Osama bin Laden.

 

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