Via Reuters :
" A polio outbreak in Tajikistan has spread, with 108 confirmed cases among children, and more expected, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.
The epidemic in the former Soviet republic is the latest setback to the United Nations agency's multi-billion dollar efforts to eradicate the disease worldwide, begun in 1988.
Mass vaccination campaigns are underway in Tajikistan and neighboring Uzbekistan this week to prevent further spreading of the virus, WHO spokeswoman Sona Bari said.
"There are 108 confirmed cases of polio and we will probably see more cases because a number of cases are still pending analysis," she told Reuters.
Twelve Tajik children had died from paralysis, but it was not yet clear whether these were from polio, she said."
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