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Syrian health workers administer polio vaccination to a girl at a school in Damascus, in this file photo taken by Syria's national news agency SANA in October.

Polio adds one more heartbreak to a Syria wracked by war

Health & Medicine

Syria thought it had eradicated polio from its borders. But with its health care system crumbling under the strain of war, the country faces a new outbreak.

A Syrian refugee girl helps her brother walk

One result of Syria’s war is an outbreak of polio

Health & Medicine
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