Before the war began earlier this year in Ukraine, health officials were on a major campaign to vaccinate children for polio. Vaccination rates for polio had gone up from 60 to 80% in recent years. But displacement caused by the war has disrupted the program, and polio cases are beginning to rise. Levi Bridges reports on growing concerns about the spread of polio, a disease once thought to be all but eradicated.
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