Polio has reappeared in Somalia, three years after the World Health Orginazation declaired the country free of the desease.
A 15-month-old girl in the Somali capital Mogadishu was confirmed to be infected by the paralysing disease on Monday, the head of the United Nations' health agency's campaign against polio, Dr Bruce Aylward, said in Geneva.
The WHO has not determined how the infant had caught polio, but suspects it might have come from Yemen, across the Gulf of Aden, where 400 polio cases have been reported, Aylward said.
"With Somalia, 19 countries have been reinfected in the last 24 months," he said.
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