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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 28 February 2007 The World Health Organization held Wednesday a meeting in Geneva to devise strategies aimed at finishing the job of eradicating polio worldwide. Lisa Schlein reports for VOA from WHO headquarters in Geneva tha

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SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - Fight to End Polio a Story of Unexpected Problems, but Also Progress Over the years, polio experts have had to learn to deal with surprises. Transcript of radio broadcast: 03 March 2008 VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Rinderpest, foot-and-mouth disease and bluetongue disease are all animal viruses that can ruin a farmer. An outbreak of one disease is bad enough. Britain has been dealing with foot-and-mouth -- an

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Polio Is Back in Nigeria Nigerian officials have launched a polio vaccination campaign in the countrys northeast, where two new cases of the virus were found. Health officials say the virus was discovered in two children from Borno State. The discove

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India Achieves Milestone in Global Polio Eradication International reaction To help India celebrate one year since its last reported case of polio, U.S. Health Secretary, Dr. Kathleen Sebelius, came to administer oral polio vaccine to Indian children

VOA标准英语2012--Funding Shortfalls Threaten Polio Eradication

Funding Shortfalls Threaten Polio Eradication The WHO-sponsored World Health Assembly ended recentedly in Geneva, Switzerland, with the announcement of a new strategy to wipe out the polio virus forever. Organizers said global polio eradication has s

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Global Polio Eradication Gets Major Boost Staff Benda Bilili, a group of eight former street musicians from Kinshasa, Congo, are singing their signature song Polio. Four of the musicians are disabled polio victims. They sing about the disease that dr

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VOA常速英语2007-Polio Eradication Effort Faces Funding Shortfall

By Carol Pearson Washington 24 October 2007 October 24th is World Polio Day. Since 1988, national governments, public health organizations and civic organizations have slashed the number of polio cases by more than 99 percent. But now the eradication

VOA常速英语2007年-WHO Says Global Polio Eradication On Track

By Lisa Schlein Geneva 24 December 2007 The World Health Organization says the most infectious type of polio could be eradicated worldwide by next year, leaving only one more strain of the disease to be tackled. WHO, which began its global polio erad

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In the early 1950s a worldwide epidemic of polio was in full swing. In the United States alone, 58,000 cases of this highly infectious and crippling disease were reported in 1952. Vaccines - which can prevent, but not cure polio - halted its spread i

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VOA常速英语2008年-Guinea Worm Eradication Target Set for 2009

By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 04 April 2008 The global campaign to eradicate the debilitating Guinea worm disease continues, with hopes for eliminating it by 2009. Four countries ended transmission of the disease in 2007. Gilbert da Costa attended a cere

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Deputies of the National People's Congress and members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference have called for the faster introduction of anti-corruption legislation to tackle the problem at the roots. 中国人大代表和政协委员

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Chinese President Xi Jinping has set himself an ambitious target. He wants to lift all 70 million people living in less than a dollar a day out of poverty within the next five years. That is roughly a million people coming out of poverty every month

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MONROVIA, Dec. 6 (Xinhua) -- An Africa Union-backed 76-member Nigerian medical contingent, comprising nurses and doctors, has arrived in Liberia as part of the response to Ebola Virus Disease eradication in the country. The Nigerian medical team, whi

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