Polio can be eradicated in 12 months: WHO
The World Health Organisation has announced that polio can be completely eradicated in the next 12 months, despite challenges in countries like Pakistan and Afghanistan. "We are now just down to two countries and nine cases [so far this year]", WHO's polio eradication officials said. The WHO had earlier failed to meet its deadline of completely eradicating polio by 2000.