Polio -- Syria
A medical source told Al Jazeera that there have been 15 registered cases of suspected polio in the rural area of Deir al Zour in eastern Syria, with diagnoses made clinically by specialist physicians in the province. This area is controlled by the [so-called] Islamic State. The cases were clinically diagnosed, not laboratory confirmed.
The medical sources added that the polio vaccination campaigns have stalled since July last year [2016], and the rural area of Deir al Zour is witnessing
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