GENEVA (Reuters) - A polio outbreak in Tajikistan has spread, with 108 confirmed cases among children, and more expected, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday.
The epidemic in the former Soviet republic is the latest setback to the United Nations agency's multi-billion dollar efforts to eradicate the disease worldwide, begun in 1988.
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