The pandemic has ended. For Africa at least. Sort of.
The pandemic in question is not coronavirus, but poliovirus, which causes crippling paralysis in a minority of children. On August 25, the World Health Organization announced that wild poliovirus had been eradicated in Africa following its disappearance in Nigeria.
Distracted by Covid-19, few people noticed. That’s a pity. It brings tantalisingly close the goal of eradicating polio from earth in what would be only the second elimination of a virus that affects humans in history. The other was smallpox, declared eradicated in 1980.
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