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01/12/2005:

"Polio spreads through Africa"

The ban on polio immunisations by northern Nigeria has resulted in a rapid spread of the life-threatening disease through Africa in the last year, Medinfo said on Tuesday.

Twelve previously polio-free countries were re-infected with the virus in 2004, and the problem was escalating in Nigeria, Sudan, and the Ivory Coast, the health information service said in a statement.

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