The world’s two worst polio-affected countries, Pakistan and Afghanistan, have exhausted themselves in failed attempts to wipe out the crippling ailment. Of the eight new polio cases record in 2012, seven are from Pakistan and one from Afghanistan.
In their latest effort to tackle the problem, both countries decided to form a joint block under the World Health Organisation to eradicate the infectious disease – which causes motor paralysis and the atrophy of skeletal muscles, often resulting in permanent physical disability or deformity – by December 2012.
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