"Thanks to the relentless efforts by governments, donors, frontline health workers and communities, up to 1.8 million children have been saved from the crippling life-long paralysis," the WHO said in a statement.
"Happiness is an understatement. We've been on this marathon for over 30 years," said Dr Tunji Funsho, a Nigerian doctor and local anti-polio coordinator for Rotary International. Poliomyelitis, or "wild polio" is an acutely infectious and contagious disease which attacks the spinal cord and causes irreversible paralysis in children.
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