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Europe achieves historic milestone as region is declared polio free

Published in Vaccine Weekly, July 31st, 2002

The historic decision to certify the World Health Organization European Region polio-free was announced at a meeting of the European Regional Commission for Certification of Poliomyelitis Eradication (RCC) in Copenhagen. For some 870 million people living in the region's 51 Member States, this landmark decision is the most important public health milestone of the new millennium.

"This is a tremendous achievement in the global effort to eradicate polio. To get where we are today required the full commitment and cooperation of each of our 51 Member States, the hard work of public health workers in the field and the firm support of international partners in coordination...

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