► The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared aninternational health emergency as polio spreads from the conflict zones in three continents. A WHO emergency committee announced in Geneva that Pakistan, Syria, and Cameroon have allowed the virus, once thought to be nearly eradicated, to spread and should take extraordinary measures to stop it. The committee is calling for all children in these countries to be inoculated, or reinoculated, and all travelers from these countries to be reinoculated and “carry proof in the form an internationally recognized document,” The New York Timesreports. The committee had become "alarmed" in recent days that "polio had spread recently from Pakistan to Afghanistan, Syria to Iraq, and Cameroon to Equatorial Guinea,” according to the Times. The committee also said there was “increasing evidence that adult travelers contributed to this spread.” If the disease is allowed to spread “unchecked, this situation could result in failure to eradicate globally one of the world’s most serious vaccine-preventable diseases,” theTimes reports.
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